After a little hiatus, Randa And The Soul Kingdom are back with a new line up and their show of 2 albums worth of worldwide releases on London’s – Freestyle Records. They’re gathering momentum for their new residency every Sunday for the month of October at the recently renovated Clancy’s Pub in Fremantle. You can expect a slightly different show featuring surprise guest artists each week, surprise giveaways and a heap of crowd interaction, plus FREE entry! You can also have a hearty meal and reasonably priced drinks to match! What are you waiting for?
If you’ve got room for more funk in your trunk and are ready to break out in a cold sweat remember every Sunday in October from 7-9.30pm!
Wednesday, September 28th, 2016 Posted in Comments Off on Dead Horse Beats – Young Ruins Patrick Wade, better known as Dead Horse Beats is a producer, singer and multi-instrumentalist living in Montreal, Canada. Since the release of his first album in 2011, Wade has garnered attention for his unique brand of hazy, rhythmic, soul-styled creations, and energetic live spectacles featuring a slough of live instrumentation, electronics and guest performers.
Thursday, September 12th, 2013 Posted in Comments Off on Ill Bill (La Coka Nostra) – The Grimy Awards (Blue Black Splatter) Includes appearances from H.R. Of Bad Brains, A-Trak, El-P, Jedi Mind Tricks, O.C., Cormega, Meyhem Lauren, Q-Unique, Shabazz the Disciple & Lil Fame of M.O.P.
And production by DJ Premier, DJ Muggs, Pete Rock, Large Professor, The Beatnuts, El-P, Ayatollah, MoSS & Ill Bill himself. Ill Bill is a former member of Non Phixion & current member of La Coka Nostra. Brooklyn native Ill Bill, keystone of critically-lauded luminaries Non Phixion, original member of La Coka Nostra, one-half of Heavy Metal Kings with Vinnie Paz, and prolific solo artist in his own right, announces the release of his most personal and realized album to date, The Grimy Awards, slated to drop February 26th on Uncle Howie/Fat Beats. Tangential and biographic, the album sees Bill addressing the formative touchstones of his life, offering “what-ifs” and describing historical events, many gruesome, that shaped the suspicious, futurist, political, analytical persona he’s been putting on wax for the better part of three decades. Here he effortlessly enlists a reverent squad of super-notable collaborators, who not only sign their approval but round out a grand Boom-Bap vision sonically and thematically. It’s imprudent and largely impossible to discuss Brooklyn rap in the last decade without acknowledging Ill Bill who, along with his fellow Non Phixion members, carved out a distinct niche in the hallowed temple of Brooklyn rap near the turn of the century.
Non Phixion’s The Future Is Now is a certifiable classic of the genre, championed by major labels like Warner Brothers and Geffen early on before being released independently on Bill’s own Uncle Howie Records. Rife with political critique and paranoia, the album sits nicely among Behold A Pale Horse-era classics from Company Flow, The Goodie Mob, and Immortal Technique. There’s a comparably dark through-line to his solo and collaborative work since, much of which is heavily informed by years as an avid fan of punk rock and heavy metal (diehards will spot an esoteric Exodus reference in “Paul Baloff”, a standout on this record). Ill Bill is a cult-rap fixture, an idol to fans across the globe and a direct progenitor of the whatever-wave of New York rap that’s currently en vogue, though there’s a stark difference in his approach. Bill lyrically postulates, provokes, praises and reminisces alternately.
The Grimy Awards is as much about what happened in Bill’s tenure on earth thus far as what might have actually happened, and why. It’s extremist in an attempt to overshoot reality and find a spurring medium between what we’re led to believe is the truth, the actual facts, and terrifying potentiality.
His prodding is a call to thought, and he uses chronological reference points to frame each verse- but the picture may not always be pretty. 1 What Does It All Mean? 2 Paul Baloff 3 I Don’t Know How Long It’s Gonna Last 4 Acceptance Speech ft. A-Trak 5 Truth 6 Exploding Octopus 7 Forty Deuce Hebrew ft.
HR of Bad Brains 8 How To Survive The Apocalypse 9 Vio-Lence ft. Shabazz The Disciple & Lil Fame of M.O.P.
10 Acid Reflux 11 L’Amour East ft. Meyhem Lauren & Q-Unique 12 Power ft. OC & Cormega 13 When I Die ft. Tia Thomas 14 Severed Heads Of State ft. El-P 15 120% Darkside Justice ft.
Jedi Mind Tricks 16 Canarsie High 17 World Premier Available from. Friday, January 12th, 2018 Posted in Comments Off on Various – Colin Curtis Presents Jazz Dance Fusion Colin Curtis presents his Jazz Dance Fusion compilation out on Z Records. Record One A1 Richie Cole – New York Afternoon A2 Michele Hendricks – What’s Going On A3 Dom Salvador – Image B1 Dom Um Romao – Ponteio B2 Emanuel K. Thursday, January 15th, 2015 Posted in Comments Off on Julien Mier – Out Of The Cloud Out Of The Cloud is some sort of full circle for me.
It’s a disclosure from the last EP when we moved from the house next to the junkyard and a fabric that made coffins (from the period I wrote Jane’s Junkyard.) We moved to a village at the border of the Veluwe (Wenum-Wiesel.) I grew up in a similar village near the dunes at the other side of the country, so returning to nature has become a returning point to truly realize where I come from. In 2013, my girlfriend and me owned a cat that ran away from our house next to the junkyard and never got back. After her disappearing we picked up a brother and sister cat from our local animal shelter that we called Sketch (named after the numerous brown, black and red dots and stripes on her back.) and Storm (as he’s completely black with a couple of white spots, looking like thunder.) These are the cats that are featured on the album cover. The week before we would move to our cabin in the woods, our cat Sketch got injured. She crawled under a barbed wire fence and receiving a serious injury.
During her recovery we moved and nearly escaped from our villain landlord that destroyed our mailbox and stole our mail that was in it. It was a dark period that can be found on Jane’s Junkyard.
This mini-album, being an anchor point for a new timeframe, started on the yard where we live now. The place is like an island in a forest with a few other people living on it. It has been an old rural farm, with plenty of space to grow our own vegetables and find eggs. We enjoy the company of two gooses, a horse, a total of 7 cats, 2 guard dogs and a crazy amount of chickens walking over the place. Out Of The Cloud is the transition between leaving all the bad things behind and moving on. Finally in nature again, finding peace, tranquility and balance in our lives.
The isolation confronted me a lot for who I am. This mini-album is a metaphor for escaping and leaving super dense urban areas and enjoying and accepting the great wide open. Birds On Bridges A2. Timid Feathered Creatures A3. We’re Like Clockwork A4. Inner Imprint B1. Turn The Tide B3.
Dappled Damp B4. Out Of The Cloud Available from.
Friday, November 7th, 2014 Posted in Comments Off on Kiddus I – Rockers: Graduation In Zion 1978-1980 Dub Store Records presents Kiddus I – Rockers: Graduation In Zion 1978-1980. Recordings by the legendary Roots singer Kiddus I, who appeared in the “Rockers” film, are released for the first time. “Rockers: Graduation in Zion” is the first release in a series of three albums that will bring to the public the majority of his existing recordings. Kiddus I is the mysterious figure singing at the start of the film Rockers. A graduate of Ras Michael’s Sons Of Negus, a key member of The Wailers milieu, and a Black Ark artist, his recordings – centred on the Roots Reggae period – are marked by the openness of their musical horizons, and a striking originality and integrity.
(Also during this era he was a key voice raised in the Jamaican music industry against political oppression.) Yet Kiddus I’s disdain for careerism has held him back from the spotlight – as so many people in Jamaican music will tell you. Now, this revelatory, comprehensive retrospective will surely confirm his place amongst the all-time greats of Reggae music. This compilation consists of every single recorded at Lee Perry’s Black Ark between 1978 and 1980 and unreleased sound sources recorded at Tuff Gong. The best sessions of the most accomplished international Reggae musicians are unveiled for the first time in twenty years. Comes with liner notes and Japanese obi strip. Available on CD and 2xLP.
PRODUCED by: F. ARRANGED by: F. RECORDED at: Black Ark, Tuff Gong, Harry JStudio, Sound Dragon NY. MIXED by: Lee Perry, Dennis Thompson & Chow Chow, Stephen Stewart. ENGINEER: Lee Perry, Dennis Thompson, Mervin Morris, D.
OVERDUBBED at: Aquarius Studio. MUSICIANS: DRUMS: Carlton ‘Santa’ Davis, Leroy “Horsemouth” Wallace, Cornell Marshall, Oral Fabian. BASS: Robert Shakespeare, Micheal Williams, Haile Maskil, Leebert ‘Gibbi’ Morison, Paul Blake.
GUITAR: Earl “China” Smith, Dwight Pickney, X Sweeney, Ernest Wilson. SAX: Glen Da’Costa, Cedric ‘Im’ Brooks.
TRUMPET: Mike Hamson. PIANO: Tyrone Downie, Newton Brenor. KEYBOARDS: Leslie Butler, Earl Wire Lindo, Harvey Bernard Touter, Winston Wright, Belly Lloyd, Little D. CLAVINET: Tyrone Downie.
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HARMONICA: Jimmy Beeker. PERCUSSIONS: Kiddus I, I Jack. BACKING VOCALS: Kiddus I, Congos,Tyrone Downie. Tracklisting 1. Crying Wolf 2. Too Fat (Extended) 3.
Security In The Streets (Extended) 4. Love Child 5. Love Child Dub 6. Graduation In Zion (Movie Take) 7. Give I Strength (Original Take) 8.
Salvation 10. Harder Dub 12.
Crying Wolf (Nyahbingi Take) Available from. Thursday, August 14th, 2014 Posted in Comments Off on Various – Kev Beadle Presents Private Collection 2 Kev Beadle is back with Private Collection Vol.2 continuing to share his uncompromising record collection and making accessible music that never really received a truly wide audience. Real jazz in the ‘70s and ‘80s had a hard time commercially, with the majors downgrading their investment in the music and concentrating on safe reissues, more easily accessible fusion, and areas more lucrative than jazz altogether. But at the same time, there was an efflorescence and democratization of the music.
The black nationalist politics of the late ‘60s had registered a profound influence on the consciousness of the United States, and the music was reclaimed for black audiences, with a plethora of community-oriented artists putting out intense, committed, recordings on small independent labels the ‘private press’, hence the ‘private jazz’ you hold in your hands. Whilst jazz education course began to take off at colleges, and independently-minded community radio DJs would support the music, it rarely had distribution. For many of the tracks here, the main sales would’ve been directly from the performer to the public, at gigs. Meanwhile, in the UK, where jazz had been part of an underground, cutting-edge youth culture at least as far back as the ‘modernist’ 1950s, a selected group of DJs on the jazz-funk and soul scene that exploded, with countless club-nights and all-dayers, at the end of the ‘70s, started to dig a little deeper for their tunes. One such was our compiler Kev Beadle, who went from being a punter on the scene to a prime mover-and-shaker. Kev attended all the important jazz-dance nights that sprang up in pub backrooms like The Horseshoe and Soho dives like The Wag (where he would soon begin a residency himself).
Kev was very much involved with propagating the music and expanding the scene with his promotion at The Belvedere in Richmond, and then, most famously, the afternoon sessions at Dingwalls alongside Bob Jones and Gilles Peterson. He was also involved in the early days of the Southport Weekender, where he now has a major role as programmer of its Beat Bar room. Kev’s expertise was in demand with record companies: he compiled a series culled from the Argo/Cadet archives for Charly (mostly funky soul-jazz) as well as an important retrospective of Terry Callier, and jazz-funk and soul from the Capitol vaults for Blue Note. Many of the tunes we present here first got an airing outside of their home states at those legendary club sessions, where the music changed from its earlier emphasis on hard-bop and bossa to modal, spiritual and ‘cosmic’ jazz. It’s fair to say few of their creators probably ever imagined they were making dancefloor hits, but Kev and his DJ contemporaries blazed a trail there that the music is still registering.
These tunes were rarely found outside of the hands of a few enterprising record-dealers, specialist record shops, and latterly, internet auctions. Kev Beadle’s desire to push the boat out musically led him to most of these tunes two decades ago, but for most listeners, the music will be experienced as upfront and progressive. It’s an uncompromising collection, making accessible music that has never really received the truly wide audience it deserves highlighting a range of artists representing yet another chapter in black America’s fascinating musical history. Thursday, October 10th, 2013 Posted in Comments Off on Express Rising – Express Rising A decade ago, Dante Carfagna issued a somewhat anonymous LP under the Express Rising heading.
That self-titled affair went in and out of print before 2003’s summer gave way to fall, thanks in part to its release by the frustratingly obscure Memphix label, but thanks more to how it broke new ground for the instrumental rap generation’s interest in the sub-sub-basement of record mining. The album’s blurry boreal cover captured Carfagna’s mysterious persona. Though he’s been attached to such seminal compilations as Chains and Black Exhaust, a grip of Eccentric Soul titles, and the recent electronic soul collection Personal Space–and though his signature “Records I barely like but maybe you will” approach to writing helped build the Wax Poetics brand–Dante remains a tough man to pin down. He doesn’t even have a working doorbell. Which may be a good thing, as he recorded his second album in the middle room of his third floor walk-up in Chicago’s Dog Patch neighborhood. A notorious homebody, Carfagna cut much of this second self titled LP after a long nights of Camel filters and bottled New Glarus—while watching his neighbors departure for morning straight-world commutes.
Reaching back to 2008 and an Akai four track, these 11 songs break from the foraging tradition employed by Dante’s debut, swapping out breakbeats and samples for guitar, Wurlitzer, banjo, steel guitar, synthesizer, and an arcane drum machine. Reached for comment, Carfagna had this to say about himself and about Express Rising: “My last record came out ten years ago.
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Much has changed and much has not.” Track Listing: 1. Rooms Between Us 2.
Memorabilia 3. Leland Sprinkle 4. Horse Opera 5. Worry Your Time 6. Left Right Behind 7. Daniel Fern 8. A Treasure Smile 9.
Winter The Heart 10. Answering Echo So Near 11. Dark Early Available from. Tuesday, July 10th, 2012 Tags:, Posted inComments Off on VP Records presents “Out Of Many: 50 Years Of Reggae Music” Very fine 3CD Deluxe Digipak Edition with addtional booklet & liner notes – available for a consumer friendly celebration price! – This comprehensive compilation chronicles the country’s musical evolution with one significant hit from each year since the island’s independence in 1962 till 2012!
In celebration of Jamaica’s 50th Year of Independence, VP Records releases.
Perth's own hip shakers, bound to make you break out in a cold sweat - Randa And The Soul Kingdom. Having supported Lionel Richie, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, The Bamboos, toured UK, Europe and Australia this 6 piece will put the funk in your trunk! Be prepared to get knocked sideways by soulful horns, high-octane vocals and gritty rhythm packed with a punch that will hit you with feel good goodness. Guaranteed to get you dancing! With two full length albums under their belt released worldwide on vinyl, cd and digital, Randa And The Soul Kingdom are now gearing up for their third release, this time with a couple of video singles to boot!
Stay tuned or get on the soul train because if there's one thing for sure, Soul is making another round as a growing youth movement! Other significant gigs have been: Good Vibes Festival, Parklife Festival, St Paul Soul Jazz Festival France, Australia Day Festival 2017, City of Perth NYE Festival 2016, RTR Seriously Sound. Police academy ost.
Randa And The Soul Kingdom
After a little hiatus, Randa And The Soul Kingdom are back with a new line up and their show of 2 albums worth of worldwide releases on London’s – Freestyle Records. They’re gathering momentum for their new residency every Sunday for the month of October at the recently renovated Clancy’s Pub in Fremantle. You can expect a slightly different show featuring surprise guest artists each week, surprise giveaways and a heap of crowd interaction, plus FREE entry!
You can also have a hearty meal and reasonably priced drinks to match! What are you waiting for?
If you’ve got room for more funk in your trunk and are ready to break out in a cold sweat remember every Sunday in October from 7-9.30pm!
Will Quantic is known around the world for his blistering stage performances with his band the Quantic Soul Orchestra. His ear for a good tune, and his feel for a good rhythm didn't come from nowhere - you see Quantic has been collecting rare funk 45s for years, and in that time he has absorbed every drum kick, every horn line and every guitar lick into his very soul.It's hard to make good music without drawing upon good influence, and we at Jazzman worry about the rubbish that kids today are listening to - it doesn't bode well for the future of music in this world.
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So along with Quantic, we have unearthed some of the very best and rarest funk 45s known (and unknown) to man. These records are pure quality - the exhorbitant prices that collectors will pay for the originals lays testament to that - and will stand the test of time as a barometer of good ol' funky music that is truly inspirational.It's a shame that the original 45s are so rare, with only a few hundred being pressed in many cases, but it is possible that with such rarity comes excellence, distinction and quality. We sincerely hope that by drawing attention to not only the music, but the stories behind the music and the performers themselves, we will inspire more people in the world to create and perfom music of the calibre that Quantic does today.
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