Thursday, July 16, 2009

July 6th & 13th 2009 Releases

MEM1
+1 (feat. Jan Jelinek, Frank Bretschneider, Steve Roden +++) Interval CD
(IL 03)





HELIXIR
XP Dub / Peace Dub

7even 12"

(7EVEN10)






CLUEKID
Original Tearout / Shatner Chop

Subsonik 12"
(SUBZ 006)






BUBBLEZ
Loser / Move Down Low
Devotional Dubs 12"
(ERZULIE 2)






CLOAKS
Junk / R.F.I.D
.
3by3 12"
(3BY3 003)






CRISSY CRISS / TWISTED / THE FAUN
Up & Down /
Dirt Cluster /
Original Fever

Heavy 12"

(HEAVY 10)




repress:


PINCH
Midnight Oil / Joyride

Tectonic 12"

(TEC 024)

June 29th 2009 Releases

new releases:

CLOAKS
Versus Grain

3by3 CD

(3BY3 002CD)






2562
Love In Outer Space / Third Wave

Tectonic 12"

(TEC 029)






BOVILL
Transfesa EP
Meanwhile 12"
(MEAN 017)






TOMUTONTTU
Tomutonttu

Fonal CD

(FR-66)





TOMUTONTTU
Tomutonto

Fonal CD

(FR-67)





represses:


ELEGI
Sistereis

Miasmah CD

(MIACD 005)






ONRA
Chinoiseries

Bo'Bun CD

(BBR 111)






WILEY/ESKIBOY
Best of Tunnel Vision

Tunnelvision 2CD
(TUNNELVISION 001CD)






PINCH
Underwater Dancehall
Tectonic 2CD
(TECCD 003)

Nat Birchall is Mojo's Disc Of The Day (Thursday 16 July 2009)










Nat Birchall's wonderful Akhenaten album on Gondwana is today's Mojo Disc Of The Day, 'an album so exceptional it fell down the cracks of the MOJO Filter':
Resisting the neat sub-categories devised by P.R.s, music journalists and fans is surely the goal of any right-thinking recording artist, yet sometimes it means that, despite the undoubted excellence of the music, you slip through the net designed specifically to get you noticed. So when a young hip Manchester indie label releases an album of expansive spiritual jazz from a flat-cap wearing, middle-aged saxophonist influenced by dub acoustics, Bob Dylan, Roland Alphonso and John Coltrane, and it's P.R.'d by a company best known for its work for dubstep/techno pioneer label Tectonic, is it any wonder that the spatial sunship beauty of Nat Birchall's Akhenaten might have so far passed some people by? Although Birchall has been a much sought-after musician on the jazz circuit for the past thirty years, a name in the hipster fleet of Gilles Peterson faithful, Akhenaten is only his second release, following a 1999 sextet debut with the Sixth Sense. This is clearly an artist who takes his time, and the mood of Akhenaten is fittingly expansive and dreamy. Album opener Nica's Dance taps into the languid, post Coltrane cosmic drift of Charles Lloyd and Pharoah Sanders, an Eastern peregrination that moves from balmy calm to reedy skreigh, suggesting a desert dream state buffeted by sirocco winds. Track two, A Prayer For..., continues the back-to-Africa mood, with Birchall's sax following Adam Fairhall's soft, rolling piano like Ricky Ford tracking Dollar Brand while on the title track (named after the Henotheistic 18th Dynasty Pharaoh) Birchall is joined by Mancunian trumpet whiz labelmate Matthew Halsall for ten minutes of lyrical heat haze hypnotism. This is a jazz that manages to be deep, intelligent and complex without ever once hitting you over the head with the difficult stick. If we manage to win back one more balmy summer's evening before the cold autumn comes then this is the record you should be expanding the collective consciousness of the neighbours with. Truly transcendental. (Andrew Male)