Review: Tamil Rogeon - Gift Of The Gab/Ascend It (BBE Music)

From the home of all things musically good downunder (that's Melbourne don't you know), yet another super talent, Tamil Rogeon!

It's not going to be often that you can find a guy and jazzy and funky as a Herbie that's playing a violinviola!  Not even Jean-luc-Ponty!

Equally Mr. Ponty had more strings to his bow [No pun etc..] and Tamil can turn his hans to modal and spiritual jazz, fusion and classical.  

'Ascend It' gets very 70s Miles/Herbie fusion and if you're into the 100mph jazzdance; this is definitely boiling up to it.

With fans as varied as Laurent Garnier, Rebecca Vasmant, Cerys Matthews and Gilles Peterson (expect Tamil at next years' We Out Here Festival).  That said, you don't need the gift of the gab of these DJs to be talking about this one. 

Artist: Tamil Rogeon 

Title: Gift Of The Gab/Ascend It 

Release date: 16th August, 2024

Label : BBE Music

Catalog Number :BBE642SDG

Format: Digital / Bandcamp  

Review: Silver Man - Don't Leave Me (Chamba Remix) (3 Bar Fire Records)

Always interested in some melancholic, downtempo so it's a good opportunity to check out a new track by Silver Man.

Not so keen on the vocals on this but if you DJ mix it into the mostly instrumental drum and bass remix, by Bristol-base Chamba, there's a real bounce up that echoes some of Bristol's trip-hop/dnb heritage.

This is the part of a "new batch" of released we've been promised from Silver Man as he returns to producing music after several years away.

Artist: Silver Man

Title: Don't Leave Me (Chamba Remix) 

Release date:16th August, 2024

Label : 3 Bar Fire Records

Catalog Number :   Digital / Bandcamp

Review: Various Artists - Be Adult Music 8th Anniversary (Be Adult Music)

It doesn't seem like a year since we were celebrating Be Adult Music 7th Anniversary but here's another compilation of all the best in a Be Adult Music world. 

In truth, it's been a little over a year since (see review HERE) but they've treated us to many a great release in the meantime that's emanated from the Ibizan beaches.

Typical of this is the dreamy opened, Hovak's 'The Day Before' and the ever present St. Ego (here with 'Stay') Also check out his Midnight Workouts remix of 'Losing Me', see review HERE) as the exclusive David Ol remix fits in so well here. 

 

Can't say I know the work of T.Picker, Erdi Imak, Viel and Death On The Balcony (their track, 'Follow The Beat' is a bit of a beachside Carrib steel pan-gospel grower) but it all has that Be Adult dancefloor quality.

Back to another artist we know, Julian Marazuela from the recent 'Seven Islands' release (see review HERE), and talking of the seaside, 'Atlantic Creatures' is a glorious multi-house genre firework of a track that wraps up this collection.

No surprise that there's much of a Balearics Island heat to all this and it's definitely one you should pack for your summer hols with the tan lotion and flip flops.

Artist: Various Artists

Title: Be Adult Music 8th Anniversary 

Release date: 15th August, 2024

Label; Be Adult Music

Catalog Number: BAM375

Review: Jasmine Tutum & Madtone - LP Livicate EP (Madtone / Blossoms Kitchen Records)

Regular readers will know that we got rather obsessed with Gilles Peterson's recent Worldwide FM interview with Chris 'The Rhythm Doctor' Long and Mr. Long's hour long europhile mix that included two unreleased tracks by Jasmine Tutum and Madtone.  

Luckily these tracks have now been released on the EP, 'LP Livicate'.   But it's not only Peterson and The Rhythm Doctor that are keen on this as a tribute to Lee 'Scratch' Perry as long-term fan Steve 'On The Wire' Barker has also championed these guys.  It's superb electronic dub that Madtone takes even further-out, when he addresses another of his favourite interests, short wave/Pirate Radio on 'Who'd Be A Pirate'.

Is anyone else at the Radio Acadamy Conference in 1990 in Glasgow?

And it's a funny coincidence that Long and Peterson first met in shed at the bottom of the Peterson's parents' garden as the HQ of his pirate radio 40ish years ago.  The campaign to get Chris, Jasmine and Madtone at WeOutHere Festival next year starts here! [We Out Here Festival 15-18 August 2024 - now Sold Out]

Also check out Jasmine on the The Other Others' release on Jahtari from last October (see reveiw HERE) and hear more details on that Chris Long mix via the ever excellent Weeds Up To Me Knees blog (see HERE with full track listing).

Artist: Jasmine Tutum & Madtone

Title: LP Livicate EP

Release date:14th August, 2024

Label : Albert's Favourites

Catalog Number :   Digital / Bandcamp

Review: Inês Loubet - Olha O Rio (Tahira Remix) (Albert's Favourites)

If you're in the UK, or most of the other parts of globe for that matter, it's as hot as a Rio Samba school, so what better than to get Inês Loubet's 'Olha O Rio' on Albert's Favourites?

One of the most active labels you're likely to find under the stewardship of Adam Scrimshire (formerly of Wah Wah 45s), they always attract some fantastic artists and here's a new one in I

The original 'Olha O Rio' has that heritage that goes all the way back to the 'originals' of 

Nara Leão, Gal Costa and the rest and introduces us to the flute of Ruta Spinola.

The Tahira remix takes the track up to full Flute Gang frequency and expecting to hear this all over the We Out Here Festival from tomorrow onwards.

Artist: Inês Loubet 

Title: Olha O Rio

Release date:14th August, 2024

Label : Albert's Favourites

Catalog Number :   Digital / Bandcamp 

Review: Ishmael Ensemble - Ezekiel / Fever Dream (Severn Songs)

Severn Songs have 'Fever Dreams' over 'Ezekiel' as Ishmael Ensemble get ever closer to the release of thier third studio album.

It's been a little over a year since the double-A single, 'Madrid / Dust' was released by Ishmael Ensemble (see review HERE) but this release is even better.  

Split over 'Ezekiel' (original, instrumental, radio edit) and the rampant 'Fever Dream' (original, instrumental) it really is a fix as to the whether there's more bang, indie, Balearics, dreamscape in which; but I'll put my tuppence on the 'Fever Dream' instrumental version as it's a proper ear worm of a rave-up.

The album, 'Rituals' is due for release next month so keep your eyes peeled here.

P.S. love the artwork here.

Artist: Ishmael Ensemble

Title:  Ezekiel / Fever Dream

Release date: 13th August, 2024

Label: Severn Songs

Catalog Number: SEVS30C

Format: Digital / Bandcamp

Review: Fouk feat. Debórah Bond – Loving At First Sight (Reel People Music)

Needless to say, some folks will say "Fouk me!" when they first hear this, and they'd me right - its the equivalent of love at first sight.

Need to catch up with Reel People Music after 'Dance With Me', the Ezel Remixes of Mothers Favorite Child & Saeeda Wright's top track (see review HERE) and this a winner from those Fouk brothers (double Dutch you might say) who clearly are in love with the vocals of US R&B star Debórah Bond.

The instrumental version is a urgent UKG synth house shuffle that wants to make you fall in love with the vocal mix all over again.

Ready for all those big tune summer festival sets; you'll be lovin' this.

Artist: Fouk feat. Debórah Bond 

Title: Loving At First Sight 

Release date: 9th August, 2024

Label : Reel People Music

Catalog Number : RPM120

Format:  Digital / Bandcamp 

Review: Hardkandy - Yonder / Interflude (Full Length Version) (Wah Wah 45s)

By this time next week, Dom Servini will probably been on the main stage at We Out Here Festivial and done numerous DJ sets, so expect to here this new single from an old friend, Hardkandy.

Servini is, of course, head of Wah Wah 45s and now a regular must listen on Jazz FM so even more of a treat to welcome back Tim Bidwell to the label (remember my review of his album 'Second To None' back in 2008 (see link HERE).

These two, 'Yonder' is trippy, hoppy and classic Hardkandy whilst 'Interlude' is all out fuzzy organ from the church of funk, jittery guitar and even something of the flute gang at the end for the jazzy b-bouys.

If this really is a 'full lenght' 'Interlude', why only 3 minutes?!  

Totally different from the last releae on Wah Wah 45s (now in its 25 year you know) to Léa Mondo's 'Rising Woman EP' from earlier this year (see review HERE); but then again, that is Wah Wah 45s. 
 
 

Artist: Hardkandy
Release:  Yonder / Interflude (Full Length Version) 
Release Date: 9th August, 2024
Label: Wah Wah 45s
Catalog Number: -
Format: Digital / BANDCAMP

Review: Emilia Sisco, Cold Diamond & Mink - Let Me In (Timmion Records)

'Let Me In' is not a tribute to footie fans bangin' on the pub doors for early orders - this is pure soul.

This is totally different from the label's last release, Jimi Tenor and Cold Diamond & Mink's LP,  'Is There Love In Outer Space?' (see review HERE) even though the 'house' band is featured in that they've gone deep south for a soul that matches Emilia Sisco's vocals perfectly.

Artist: Emilia Sisco and Cold Diamond & Mink

Title:  Let Me In / Way Past Midnight (Let Me In (Instrumental))

Release date: 9th August, 2024

Label : Timmion Records

Catalog Number : TR760

Format: 7" / Digital / Bandcamp 

Review: Bolbec - Victime De l'aube (Batov Records)

Multi-instrumentalists Axel Concato and Barth Corbelet are Bolbec and as they've been friends from childhood, this album is crammed full of influences, a 'Victime De l'aube' youloung might say

This is an album that deep in the OST world of Piero Piccioni, Michel Legrand or Jonny Trunk's favourite, Basil Kirchin with a more than healthy dollop of library.

If you'd come across a track like 'Feuille D'orage' in a diggers vault you'd have to pay a hefty some to get your rare bossa flute gang banjo hands on it; worth the price of the album in itself.

Even then there's 'Vengeance Tropicale' for some Herb Alpert-ish jazz shuffle for a Sunday Afternoon or even they title tracks which is a strange blues walk al a Horace Silver meets Mark Murphy as an instrumental (wonder if someone will let it slip any of these in the Dingwalls 'tent' at WeHowHere Festival).

But there's 9 other tracks that are out there from the 70s synth pop-corn theme of 'Rue Nue',  the childrens TV theme of 'Funaise' or lost in a rain forest, 'En Bermuda'; it all sounds so familiar yet it's new!

The duo are supported by the rhythm section of Notalgia 77 (still love 'The Lonliest Flower In The Village; see review HERE) but as always with such albums, great tracks like 'Nuitée' and 'À L'instar Du Flair', whilst beatifully formed, just seem a little short.

As you can tell, it's a lot to the leftfield of Batov Records 'traditional' Middle Eastern Sounds but If you know your Bruton from your KPM's, this is the must have album of the summer.

Artist: Bolbec

Title:  Victime De l'aube 

Release date: 9th August, 2024

Label: Batov Records 

Cat. No: BTR101

Format:  Digital / Bandcamp

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