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Latest release of LA flavoured new age/ jazz instrumentals from the main man John Carroll Kirby - inc. contributions from Yu Su & Laraaji.

‘SON’ was recorded in London and Freetown between 2019-21. Inspired by the pair’s shared love of choral music, it began as an experiment to explore playing with the voice in more creative ways, using layered vocals as an instrument following piano harmony, arrangement and sampling.The project started in London with the title track and became a story about a world in which we hide our true ‘colours’ in order to fit in. A mother tells her son that he needs to fit in to survive before realising that she is following the same tropes passed on to her as a child. Following this realisation, she encourages her son to protect his dreams and not to listen to anybody telling him he can’t be whatever he chooses.Rosie joined Duval for a week in Freetown in February 2020 where they wrote the rest of the project, bringing friends Daniel Koroma, Kandeh Bangura, Valentine Coker, Chino Greene and Tom Herbert in for musical contributions;“We were interested in bringing our surroundings into the recordings; leaving doors open, recording in different spaces and locations, inviting the listener to experience the life that was going on around us whilst capturing the process”.

1965 masterpiece, backed by trio of McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrisson, & Elvin Jones. Essential deep jazz LP.2022 stereo remaster, gatefold sleeve.

New archival label Fresh Hold and Efficient Space present one of Australia’s most mysterious jazz long players. The eponymous creation of Queensland-based jazz pianist Robert Welsh, originally issued in 1986 on Melbourne independent label Cleopatra Records. Rich in compositional sophistication and expressive performance, Singing Dust resembles a unique fusion of Indian devotional song, the jazz piano styles of Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett, English folk and Debussey’s tonal impressions.Transferred and remastered from original tapes, superseding the imperfect 1986 pressing and fully realising Welsh’s expansive vision.Singing Dust by Singing Dust

Essential MFM comp of Balearic experimental ambient music from the legendary group. AMAZING deep music.