Jah Embassy Players
Tribal

Brand New Ashkabad featuring Baltimores "Four Shades of Dub" released on PatchWork records. A fresh shot of Dancehall Dub for fan of ruffest O.B.F. vibrations

Levi Bruce, aka Unknown Mobile, has been a prominent figure of the Canadian Underground for quite some time He resides in Montreal and has contributed to a number of North American labels. It seems only natural that he is the next release on Planet Euphorique. “Mobile Sorcery” could be his most rhythmically diverse 12” yet, recorded in just a couple of weekends it breaks free from 4 to the floor, experimenting confidently with syncopation, voices dipping in and out of focus. The opener Broke Melt presents a driving baseline filled with attitude, flickers of glistening synth arpeggios to soften the clanging drum patterns, working in harmony with delicate top lines. The hypnotic haze of textures carries through the record, A2 lifting in energy; shooting stabs, ricocheted sub base filling the space between commanding snares. The Beat Dub of Sorcery strips the track back to the essentials, resulting in a perfect tool for DJ’s building tension. Surprisingly keeping the essence of the tune whilst offering hints of more dubbed, percussive club pushing UK bass.The B Side explores more of these unconventional rhythmic themes whilst highlighting the power of melody. Heavenly Depression accurately depicting it’s title, pulling on the struggle of your emotions through an ever-progressing lead woven tightly over sweeping pads. The closing track Wilders Lake ties the record together cohesively, lifted stabs to calm the tripped out percussion swooping in and out, growling bass alluding to darkness. The EP blends genres to create new feelings from familiar foundations, channelling Detroit inspired grit and emotion; well rounded to suit hazed and hedonistic dance-floors.

Kolida Babo is the collaboration between two Greek woodwind musicians from separate regions - Socratis Votskos is from Pella, and Harris P is from Athens. This, their debut album, was recorded in improvised live-take sessions beginning on the night of the “Kolida Babo” folk rituals of music and dance in northern Greece in winter 2013. The sessions proceeded over three years, exploring the ancient music of Armenia and the folk traditions of northern Greece’s Epirus and Thrace regions alongside abstract electronics and free jazz.As musicians of modern Greece, the sonic palette is developed in part as a means of processing the country’s immediate actualities: its relation to its regional traditions, its urban centres and its humanitarian and economic crises. In this, the music is at once clearly located in traditional sounds and disjointed from them, at times contrasting or harmonious in both concept and sound.The Armenian Duduk that anchors the project is a double-reeded woodwind instrument made of apricot wood with thousands of years of history and generations of venerable masters - the duo cite Djivan Gasparyan as a main influence, and Harris studied with Vahan Galstyan. Traditionally its music is played in duet: a melody on one duduk, a low drone accompaniment (“the dum”) on another. Kolida Babo preserves and extends the dual nature of duduk music in many ways, replacing the dum at times with the tones of a moog synthesizer to allow the two players to weave harmonies together in duet. And there is a persistent duality in the braid of Kolido Babo’s sonic associations - modern and ancient, local and global - sometimes underpinning one another, sometimes undermining. “Sometimes we mock modern times and sometimes the other way around”, they say - it’s a collision, or an engagement, romantic or pugilistic, and the sense is of an experiment without expectation, without preciousness or exoticism of folk culture. The elements challenge each other and the listener - while the music is very much about texture and tone, the sounds aren’t clearly modern or ancient: it’s futile to identify, we’re reminded, and instead we experience the immediate presence and power of the combination. Influences include Armenian Folk music, Greek Rebetiko, German Kosmiche, Spiritual Jazz, the Fourth World Music of Brian Eno and John Hassell, British Trip Hop, Electrified West African Funk. But where these can be identified they are as sidelong journeymakers through the borderless idiolect belonging to the dialogue between the two players and enabling its free and full execution, subtle markers used to co-ordinate the collaboration.

Belle copie w/ inner sleeve. Pressage français. Avec Green, Steve Hillage renoue avec ses deux premiers albums, avec des titres space et des spirales de synthétiseurs. Mention spéciale au très funky Unidentified (Flying Being) et à The Glorious Om Riff, reprise de Master builder de Gong, paru en 1974 sur You. C'est le dernier album rock réussi de sa période solo, avant une nette baisse de qualité sur les opus suivants, hormis Live Herald et l'ambiant Rainbow Dome Musick. C'est un des albums préférés d'Ed Wynne, le guitariste/claviériste d'Ozric Tentacles1.La pochette représente une Pyramide poisson de John Michell, un auteur et peintre britannique qui a un intérêt particulier pour les formes géométriques. Son travail repose sur la figure géométrique Vesica piscis : l'intersection de deux cercles de même diamètre dont le centre de chacun fait partie de la circonférence de l'autre.L'album est d'abord sorti sous la forme d'un vinyle vert transparent, puis sous celle d'un disque noir normal. L'édition verte était assortie d'un poster de Hillage devant une chaine de montagne, avec la "pyramide poisson" imprimée sur le visage2.Cet album se classa à la 30e place des charts britanniques.Steve a beaucoup utilisé une guitare synthétiseur Roland GR-500 sur l'album. On notera la présence de Nick Mason à la batterie sur la pièce Leylines to Glassdom sur le disque original, ainsi que Clive Bunker ex-Jethro Tull, aussi comme batteur sur les 4 pièces bonus enregistrées en concert au Rainbow de Londres, sur la pièce Not Fade Away (Glid Forever). Steve Hillage – Chant, guitare électrique, guitare synthétiseur, synthétiseursMiquette Giraudy – Synthétiseurs, vocoder, chœursCurtis Robertson Jr – BasseJoe Blocker – BatterieNick Mason : Batterie sur Leylines to Glassdom, production

Jamwax Records proudly presents We Sing Gregory. On this album, jamaican producer Bravo used the best roots and culture band, the undomitable Roots Radics, featuring Flabba Holt on bass, Style Scott on drums and Keith Sterling on keyboards, and hired legends Robbie Lynn on keyboards, Cat Coore and Chinna Smith on guitar, Stick on percussion, Dean Fraser on horns, thus ensuring a heavy and flawless riddim foundation and superb arrangements. The Roots Radics were Gregory Isaacs band in the early 80's, playing on the Night Nurse and Out Deh! albums, touring around the world with the cool ruler. Gregory Isaacs' songwriting is magnificient and the subjects are always treated with humbleness and consideration for others.