Los Sospechos are basically The Budos Band with the kind of bold flavor they enjoy in … Albuquerque! Depending on the specific description/press release being offered, this band consists of either members of the Budos Band joined by new faces or is just members of the Budos Band under a different name. The music certainly sounds Budos-ish, albeit there is an extra touch of the White Sands in the mix. Either way, it’s good. The two songs are taken from the Postales soundtrack.
Nice to see NYB back in action, they are one of my favorite modern bands doing genre bending instrumental psych jazz/funk/whatever freak outs. The Away With Melancholy album has become of a personal favorite of mine since its original release 2008(?), and a bonafide cult classic to boot. This single is a precursor for a new album to be released on Jazzman this autumn.
The A-side ‘Eastern Promise’ is par for the course i.e. sophisticated music to do drugs by.
The B-side ‘Psalm’ surprised me a little. I expected something gospel-like from the title, but I didn’t expect it to be set over rap-ready breakbeat drums. I can see KRS-One playing something like this at the Temple of Hip Hop while slaughtering chickens over pictures of Soulja Boy.
You know, I’d almost forgotten what your eyes looked like. Still the same. Pissholes in the snow.
Please allow me a brief movie nerd moment. Here is one of the greatest score composers performing what is arguably his greatest creation – the theme from Get Carter. Which in itself is one of the top 3 greatest British crime thrillers of all time, featuring one of Michael Cain’s best performances. Obviously I’m a bit of a fan of all of this.
All sorts of spacey stuff here, broken down to the minerals and reshaped with great care by digger extraordinaire/producer Doc Delay. The result generally defies genre classification but sounds pretty much like you’d want it to sound based on the cover above. Highly recommended, this is one of the best mixes I’ve heard all summer.
Exceptionally dope funk/hiphop/jazz instrumental shit for your weekend festivities right here. I honestly don’t think I’m cool enough to listen to this.
Let’s call this ‘Beat Konducta Goes To Hawaii But Forgets The Drums At Home’. Monster Rally plunders laid back and mildly trippy Hawaian surf pop much like Madlib and his his ilk do with other geographically specific music, except there is absolutely no effort to make the results resemble anything hip hop oriented. Instead of thump the aim is pure vibe – the music is all hazy impressions of luaus and beaches and island girls in grass skirts gently shaking their hips to ukuleles. The end result is offbeat but very engaging. Magnum PI and Higgins could definitely get high to this. The whole thing is only 10 minutes, so trying it out is a fairly painless proposition.
Found this on Soulstrut, it was compiled by a guy named The Gaffler. Let’s call this Yacht Soul – same vibes as your standard issue ‘best of Cross/McDonald mix’ but built with bits of Billy Dee Williams approved early 80s jazz and soul instead of AM Gold Rock. Great for soundtracking your laid back weekend balling activities.
This was the accompanying description:
Private label jazz & modern soul mix. No release date [198?]. There is some water damage on the cover from what looks to be red wine, and there is some sand inside the jacket. Nothing but smooth sailing from start to finish.
This is a cool story about a good song (excerpts taken from the Jazzman website):
…with the blessing of Mark Capanni himself, here it is as it should be, the ORIGINAL VERSION of the Jackson Sisters classic rare groove anthem ‘I Believe in Miracles’…
Sublime Axelrod-style folk jazz orchestration backs Capanni’s carefree yet poignant vocals on THE original version of the Jackson Sisters ‘I Believe in Miracles’. Recorded in 1973 and performed by Mark Capanni who co-wrote the song, this was completed and ready to go a full 14 months before the Jackson Sisters version hit the streets. Despite the Capanni version having been pressed up it failed to make an impact – too soulful for rock radio but not soulful enough for RnB radio – and the record was pulled. It was the Jackson Sisters with their full-on dancefloor funk that did the business, released in 1974 it’s since gained legendary status, a musical definition of the rare groove era and with a multitude of versions and remixes. BUT it’s only recently that this amazing ORIGINAL version has been discovered…
I like that The Heliocentrics are now becoming the go-to band for cult jazz revivalism. After the successful collaboration with Mulatu, Strut and Now-Again are pairing the band with obscure exotic jazz hero Lloyd Miller. The album will be called OST, and what’s been released from it so far sounds like the right combination of cool and weird (the two songs are below). You can read more about this on the Strut website.
