Fabiano Nascimento Sam Gendel
The Room

Alongside a tandem release on Unrock featuring the track 'Speaking In Tongues' from the same gig, this new release on Sub Rosa from Dwarfs Of East Agouza captures the Egyptian free improv and psych rock explorers playing live at Les Ateliers Claus in Brussels in 2017. It's instructive that A side track 'Baka Of The Future' is also the opening track from their debut album, because it sounds entirely different on this live version and thus neatly captures the creative forces at play from Maurice Loca's keys and drum machines, Sam Shalabi's electric guitar and Alan Bishop's bass. It's a mesmerising trip with shades of Krautrock underneath the scratchy, unpredictable playing on top.

Originally released on EMI Sweden, original copies of this album still change hands in excess of $500.This was Doris’ jazz album though it contains more than a hint of Joni Mitchell, Led Zepellin and the like. Backed by her husband Lukas Lindholm on bass she was able to lay down some seriously funky bass lines on tracks like Don't and Beatmaker. On You Never Come Closer, an experimental track that was way ahead of its time, Janne Carlssonunleashes a fearsome sound on drums helped by Bernot Egerladh on organ.

Meaning ‘Hi’ in Uruguayan slang, Opa are a South American jazz-funk phenomenon. Fusing Uruguay’s native Candombe rhythms with North American jazz and pop music, Opa’s space-age synthesizers, boisterous grooves and compositional magic expressed a distinctive Afro-Uruguayan voice within the global jazz vernacular: a voice which remains as vital and unique today as when it was recorded, almost half a century ago.Having migrated to New York from Montevideo in the early seventies, Opa were heard playing in a nightclub by renowned producer and label owner Larry Rosen. At Holly Place Studios between July and August 1975, Rosen oversaw Opa’s first recordings using a four track TEAC 3340. The album would become home to some of Opa’s hardest hitting funk jams, with moments of songwriting wonderment and soulful pop and rock progressions combining with the jazz-funk fusion Opa would become known for.Mysteriously (for reasons unknown to the band), Opa’s debut was shelved and remained so until the mid-1990s. But the Back Home recordings were used as demos, gaining Opa a record deal with Milestone Records and the subsequent release of two cult-favourite albums: Goldenwings (1976) and Magic Time (1977).Opa would also collaborate with North American titans including bassist Ron Carter, producer Creed Taylor and Brazilian icons Airto Moreira, Flora Purim, Hermeto Pascoal and Milton Nascimento. In more recent years Opa’s music has found new audiences after being sampled by Captain Murphy (aka Flying Lotus) and Madlib.For fans of Azymuth, Weather Report, Cortex and The Headhunters.

“Spirale”, initially released in 1976, is one of the essential recordings of Eastern European modal Jazz.The masterpiece recorded by Paul Weiner, a pianist from Timisoara, a city in Romania, has been transformed into a cult LP and not just because it is a source of samples.180g. VINYL + HARD CARDBOARD COVER + OBI