Drawing on influences from across the musical spectrum including Thom Bell, Burt Bacharach, Quincy Jones, and Henry Mancini, UK composer, producer and conductor Al Lloyd presents “A Moment In Time,” featuring full orchestral strings, horns, and percussion alongside contemporary rhythm section and vocalists. The four tracks of original compositions includes the Philly Soul-infused ‘Yesteryear Feels Like Yesterday’; the Burt Bacharach-inspired ‘You Don’t Have to Prove I’m a Fool,’ featuring vocals from Emma Watson; ‘I Count the Tears’ with an emphasis on Orchestra’s horn section; and the atmospheric piano and string piece, ‘Rain On Piccadilly Circus’. Available through SoulMusic Records-Digital, distributed worldwide by Warner X on all major digital platforms.
Christian McBride’s magnum opus available on vinyl for the first time. The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait of Four Icons is culminating documentation of a richly inspired piece – lauding four key figures of the Civil Rights Movement: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Rosa Parks and Muhammad Ali. Marshaling his ever-sharpening skills as a composer, arranger, conductor, musician and lyricist, Christian McBride has created a historically and culturally illuminating five-part suite for an 18-piece big band, chorus and narrators that places the motivating forces as well as the goals of the Civil Rights Movement within a powerfully relevant artistic context. It is a one-from-the-heart project McBride was, apparently, destined to undertake. This recording of The Movement Revisited marks the addition of a fifth movement, “Apotheosis,” which acknowledges the election of Barack Obama as the first African American President of the United States.
The New Regency Orchestra’s first offering is here.Two versions of the classic Tito Puente track ‘Mambo Rama’ originally composed and recorded by the timbale maestro Tito Puente in 1952 in New York City. The tune was re-recorded under Eliane Correa’s direction back in July 2022 at the Fish Factory with an eight-piece rhythm section and a storming twelve-piece horn section that includes trombonist Rosie Turton, saxophonist Tamar Osborn (Collocutor) & trumpeter Nick Walters (Ruby Rushton, Riot Jazz) alongside Latin music protagonists, Ernesto Marichales (timbales - Waaju, Jordan Rakei), bongo player Flavio Correa, and bass player Jimmy Martinez. The alternate version imagined by Lex Blondin was produced at the Total Refreshment Centre. This version brings a more modern take on this classic as drums and synth bass elements are brought into the mix, taking a hip hop and dub approach to layering and sound treatement. Almost a remix of the original, the track features instrumentalist and composer Momoko Watanabe Gill (Tirzah, Coby Sey, An Alien Called Harmony) on drums and Korg MS-10 , Alex Burke (Forest Law, Esa, Haha Sounds) on various percussions with contributions from Capitol K and Kissu.
Made in Wood create a unique instrumental tale and the duo has something to tell you through their music.. something that they convey through their simple and elegant music expression, where there is time and space for the musical tale, time for immersion and to those listeners, who are joining the meditative and dreamy tales. Made in Wood invite you into an intimate and present musical space, in which the simple means of action create intense atmospheres.The new album called "Simplicity" by the Danish/Swedish duo, Made in Wood, was released Friday, 25 November. The lead single for the album release is the track called "Freedom", but there are also two previous singles, as stated here (both have music videos made).
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