Shafiq
Husayn - Loop
It's been
many years since Sa-Ra have expanded our minds with their revolutionary blend
of hop hop and soul – but fortunately, Shafiq Husayn has carried on the group's
legacy – and has reached an even higher plane with music like this! Husayn
brings all the fantastic production skills to the album that made Sa-Ra great,
but also really opens the door to a much more cosmic soul style of presentation
– one that creates a sonic universe that's all his own, but which is big enough
to allow for some really great guest work from a lineup that includes Erykah
Badu, Hiatus Kaiyote, Anderson.Paak, Robert Glasper, Bilal, Thundercat, and
Flying Lotus! Unlike other many-guest records, which sometimes get tipped
between the talents from track to track, this album's got a rock-solid core in
Shafiq's music – which really unifies the efforts of everyone, and makes the
whole thing feel like a wonderfully collaborative effort. Titles include
"Message In A Bottle", "Twelve", "Picking
Flowers", "May I Assume", "DMT", "Between Us
2", "Cycles", "Hours Away", "Walking Round
Town", "On Our Way Home", and "Show Me How You Feel".
~ Dusty Groove
Evan Parker
& Kinetics - Chiasm
Saxophonist
Evan Parker has always been a wonderfully collaborative talent – fantastic on
his own, but also very able to improvise at a fantastic level within any sort
of group – so that he never dominates, and instead only seems to act as a force
that seems to bring out the best in all around him! That's definitely the case
here – in a set of improvisations recorded in London and Copenhagen, with a
trio that features Jacob Anderskov on piano, Adam Pultz Melbye on bass, and
Anders Vestergaard on drums – all younger musicians that, we think, are new to
our ears – but who hit a level of spontaneous creation that's really wonderful
alongside Parker's tenor. The set features four long tracks, two from each city.
~ Dusty Groove
Under The
Influence Vol 7 – A Collection Of Rare Soul & Disco Compiled By Winston
A great
entry in this really fantastic series – one that's turned us on to more rare
club cuts than we can count over the years – and which still stands head and
shoulders above most other collections of vintage dancefloor grooves! The
tracks here are all hand-picked by Winston – and seem even rarer and more
obscure than the previous volumes – not that quality is sacrificed for the sake
of rarity, just that the tracks are amazingly fresh discoveries even for ears
like ours – which have been well-trained on decades of collecting underground
soul and disco! Most of these cuts offer up a nice sideways take on popular
modes of the time – grooves that can be grittier or more offbeat, but in a
really great way – and the 2CD version features 22 titles that include
"Dancing" by Mary Gold, "Let's Do It Together" by The GTs,
"Do You Like It" by The Olympics, "Can't Stop Dancin" by
Jonnie Vibes Lambert, "We Are Steady Rockin" by Al Man Muntzie &
The Embraceables, "More People Than Me" by Synergy with Donnell
Pitman, "Sugar Daddy (parts 1 & 2)" by Betty Padgett, "I'm
Human" by Lord Of Storm, "If There Is No Struggle (long version)"
by Are & Be, "Get Up & Dance Now" by Bramsam, and "Build
Your Foundation" by Bollyn Thompson. ~ Dusty Groove
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