even though
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 15 August 2020 03:07 (three years ago) link
Oscar Jerome's album has just come out, he's worked with Moses Boyd, Joe Armon-Jones, Kokoroko etc.; it's jazzy, funky, latiny singer-songwritery stuff, very good, although not as good as he is live.
― fetter, Monday, 17 August 2020 18:45 (three years ago) link
Thanks for reminder on Sault; I don't think I've heard of Oscar, will check that too.Now going through some other releases by Kaleidoscope contributors (Tenderlonious and Nubya Garcia have albs out this Fri. 21rst)For instance: take a bracing break with Yazmin Lacey's current EP, Morning Matters. Pretty thread-relevannt: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/4bKvGPxUyTronyfLbfGoD7t8TBUZZMGu04mN9PL1Xduzr5HVhiprhjfHAH5SQeOHQT5OPbXgAXvTnsYq=w544-h544-l90-rj if that doesn't show, it's on YouTube Music, lots of these K-scopers are on bandcamp too---bandcamp may be better for artists, but YTM has better audio on my little old set-up.
― dow, Monday, 17 August 2020 19:23 (three years ago) link
Oops, that's the art---let me try it again, and then audio:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/4bKvGPxUyTronyfLbfGoD7t8TBUZZMGu04mN9PL1Xduzr5HVhiprhjfHAH5SQeOHQT5OPbXgAXvTnsYq=w544-h544-l90-rjhttps://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kcdqndRu_qyk5y_nDlRrPW5gljLgM1wDA
― dow, Monday, 17 August 2020 19:25 (three years ago) link
Not the best art, but pertains to the music.
― dow, Monday, 17 August 2020 19:26 (three years ago) link
Also thread-relevant: K-scope contributor Emma-Jean Thackray's "Movementt" (sic) from her 2020 Rain Dance EP, where she samples her band's live performances and adds instruments, sometimes vocals---on this particular track, she plays all the instruments, and I always like her voice (nice video for this one too)--would work in a mix w Dark Matter tracks I think:https://ejthackray.bandcamp.com/track/movementt
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2920904191_10.jpg
― dow, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 18:06 (three years ago) link
Gilles Peterson Presents MV4Taken from a day of live sessions in London’s legendary Maida Vale Studios - studio MV4 to be exact, it was originally intended just for Peterson’s BBC radio show broadcast on 20th October 2018. Struck by what a special moment the sessions captured, Peterson has decided to mark the results with a release proper on his Brownswood imprint.
A limited special double vinyl release(download also, from bandcamp & elsewhere) it features a diverse, all-star cast of some of the acts celebrated by Peterson in recent years, in a series of freewheeling and off-the-cuff recordings, several of the tracks backed by the group of Brownswood signee, Joe Armon-Jones. Featuring Dylan Jones, James Mollison, Mutale Chashi, and Marijus Aleksa as well as guest turns from Fatima, Asheber, Nubya Garcia, Hak Baker, and Oscar Jerome, plus a double track special from Bristol based collective, Ishmael Ensemble.Think all of this is thread-relevent, esp, tracks w guest vcx: right off, the strong yet never overselling lungs of Asheber on "New Day," likewise plus driving rhythm-guitar-as soloing-instrument of xpost Oscar Jerome on "Do You Really", hope and urgency of Fatima on "Only." Then Hax Baker's phrasing combines dancehall, maybe hip-hop, improvised-seeming exchanges with the rhythm section in a way I've never heard, though I'm not from around here. That's "Thirsty Thursday," more romantic than you might think re title.Whole thing is morning coffee for basking & grooving.Will spare you the cover "art," but here's where I listenedhttps://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Xjo10l5gjTM&list=RDAMVMhTQ8IgAXwp0
― dow, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 22:53 (three years ago) link
vox, not vcx, Hak not Hax Baker, although not bad for typos.
― dow, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 22:56 (three years ago) link
What other Peterson collections should I get? I know he's been around a long time, I see appealing titles, but no idea where to go next.
― dow, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 22:58 (three years ago) link
Holy Modal, just listened to Nubya Garcia's new Source: so far her tenor's seeming heavy and unresponsive to peppery drums etc. on first two tracks, but the rest blows me away, and is mostly thread/mix-relevant:3. Source (featuring Ms MAURICE, Cassie Kinoshi, Richie Seivwright) 12:08 4. Together Is A Beautiful Place To Be 07:36 5. Stand With Each Other (featuring Ms MAURICE, Cassie Kinoshi, Richie Seivwright) 03:38 6. Inner Game 07:44 7. La cumbia me está llamando (featuring La Perla) 04:15 8. Before Us: In Demerara & Caura (featuring Ms MAURICE) 08:00 9. Boundless Beings (featuring Akenya) 02:46 aboutAward-winning saxophonist and composer Nubya Garcia announces her debut album SOURCE, to be released August 21, 2020 on Concord Jazz. Produced by Garcia herself in collaboration with celebrated producer Kwes (Bobby Womack, Solange, Nerija), the album is announced after the release of lead single “Pace” and a rousing live performance on the BBC’s 2020 Glastonbury Experience.SOURCE explores a multidimensional jazz sound layered with soul, afro-diasporic sounds and hints of dub-step along the way. Tracks 4 and 6 are the relatively mainstream--vibrantm and in the case of "Inner Game," fast-ballads, the rest is more cosmopolitan yall, all ranging from affecting to exhilarating. (Well-rounded, and even a bit more variety in the closer, which is Arkestra-worthy Earthlight serenade.)I listened here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbzDZxmJypQ&list=PLddSkUxmPEC-f9Ly6O1i_YdMzXHE_9EPR&index=1
― dow, Friday, 21 August 2020 23:51 (three years ago) link
What the hell, anyway check YouTube for Nubya Garcia Source full album (opener "Pace" is playing again, and now I get it, but think those I pasted fit thread better)
― dow, Friday, 21 August 2020 23:53 (three years ago) link
Joe Armon-Jones' keys delight all over this.
― dow, Friday, 21 August 2020 23:55 (three years ago) link
Ebi Soda, Ugh: Body, brio, beats, trombones, other horns, dubwise, occasional voices: this album (titled Ugh) will get you or at least me high for a night. At a time, that is (reasonable0. Now in stereo.Stupid cover, but I sure hope this link works: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms8bs0CLz5Q&list=OLAK5uy_mlP4WfKAU_GVwYzqiRQQ0MgIJyO_8XxrI
― dow, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 04:09 (three years ago) link
Is there any catch-all thread for the whole current London jazz scene including Boyd, Garcia, Shabaka Hutchings, Yazz Ahmed, Camilla George, SEED Ensemble, Maisha, Nerija, etc? There's so much interconnections between these people and their sound that a separate thread might be nice?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 09:34 (three years ago) link
London jazz wizard Shabaka Hutchings: Sons of Kemet / The Comet Is Coming / Shabaka & the Ancestors
― calzino, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 09:35 (three years ago) link
Well yeah, but that one is technically about Hutchings just like this one is about Boyd... I meant a thread for the entire scene.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 09:37 (three years ago) link
I can start one if it doesn't exist yet, I feel like they deserve a single unifying thread?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 09:38 (three years ago) link
There's a great set by KOKOROKO at the Proms on the BBC i-player at the moment
― fetter, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 10:09 (three years ago) link
A catch-all thread for the current jazz scene in London, including Shabaka Hutchings, Yazz Ahmed, Moses Boyd, Nubya Garcia, Camilla George, Theon Cross, Zara McFarlane, Daniel Casimir, SEED Ensemble,
― Tuomas, Thursday, 10 September 2020 06:33 (three years ago) link
This one is about Boyd... I meant a thread for the entire scene. This one's gotten to be about others as well, but good to have more threads covering the scene, scenes, yeah!
― dow, Friday, 11 September 2020 01:21 (three years ago) link
Can't manage the post now, but on youtube check Katy B vocals for Boyd's remix of "2 Far Gone"--hope he'll remix--the whole album maybe? Why not. Check her thread too.
― dow, Sunday, 21 February 2021 18:06 (three years ago) link
Said remix:
https://mosesboyd.bandcamp.com/track/2-far-gone-vocal-mix-ft-katy-b
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 16:07 (three years ago) link
there was discussion of that in the katy b thread, it's fantastic
― ufo, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 20:26 (three years ago) link
shout out to nikola for posting this on the Shabaka thread, it's superb:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPZxrsS2Hp0
Binker & Moses "Accelerometer Overdose"
― rob, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 15:49 (two years ago) link
Out now:
Art Themen, Greg Foat & Baldo Verdu & Moses Boyd.Four Sides to Every StoryThe Vinyl Factory / Soho Radio / 180Greg Foat performs live at Vinyl Sessions – a series from The Vinyl Factory and Soho Radio, where artists record direct-to-dubplate, captured in a single take. ‘Four Sides to Every Story’ features four spontaneous, improvised compositions from Art Themen, Greg Foat, Baldo Verdu and Moses Boyd.* Tenor & soprano saxophone: Art Themen* Percussion: Baldo Verdu* Drums: Moses Boyd* Electric piano & synthesizers: Greg Foat* Edition of 500 units* Release Date: 10/03/22Greg Foat is one of the UK’s leading jazz pianists, composers, and music producers. He has worked with a diverse selection of musicians including Bob Lind, Moses Boyd, Curtis Lundy, Rita Ora, Wendy James, Questlove and The Kooks. In recent years, he’s recorded for Jazzman Records, Athens Of The North, and Strut.Using Soho Radio’s lathe to capture the performance, ‘Four Sides To Every Story’ features Foat on keys and vocals alongside Moses Boyd on drums, Baldo Verdu on percussion, and Art Themen on saxophone.
Greg Foat performs live at Vinyl Sessions – a series from The Vinyl Factory and Soho Radio, where artists record direct-to-dubplate, captured in a single take. ‘Four Sides to Every Story’ features four spontaneous, improvised compositions from Art Themen, Greg Foat, Baldo Verdu and Moses Boyd.
* Tenor & soprano saxophone: Art Themen* Percussion: Baldo Verdu* Drums: Moses Boyd* Electric piano & synthesizers: Greg Foat
* Edition of 500 units* Release Date: 10/03/22
Greg Foat is one of the UK’s leading jazz pianists, composers, and music producers. He has worked with a diverse selection of musicians including Bob Lind, Moses Boyd, Curtis Lundy, Rita Ora, Wendy James, Questlove and The Kooks. In recent years, he’s recorded for Jazzman Records, Athens Of The North, and Strut.
Using Soho Radio’s lathe to capture the performance, ‘Four Sides To Every Story’ features Foat on keys and vocals alongside Moses Boyd on drums, Baldo Verdu on percussion, and Art Themen on saxophone.
https://thevinylfactory.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Greg-Foat_Sq-768x769.png cover art for true cratedigger appeal
https://thevinylfactory.com/product/four-sides-to-every-story/?utm_source=The+Vinyl+Factory+%28New+Main+List%29&utm_campaign=82fef4f069-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_02_28_02_45_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4edc26fa7f-82fef4f069-150952293&mc_cid=82fef4f069&mc_eid=9d9d04ee64
― dow, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 23:38 (one year ago) link
A bit of that (I think):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gOqz_7kz7U
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 29 March 2022 23:55 (one year ago) link
I couldn’t listen closely but the new Binker & Moses album sounded great
― rob, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 00:18 (one year ago) link