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Michael Scott Dawson is a Canadian producer and sound artist Anchored by frayed melodies, tape loops, and pastoral field recordings he has crafted a body of tender and nostalgic ambient work On his third solo LP, Find Yourself Lost, Dawson veers toward the fringes of country and western Although ‘cosmic’ has become catchall... -
Latin music, with all its spirit, all its intensity, and all its magic, expresses itself in the decade of the seventies as a cultural revelation Europe recognizes, listens, and dances to our music, the United States jumps to the sound of it Latin America is letting its roots be felt ELEGUA is a part of this happening It...
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A track about an African king recorded in the back of a car wash commands $1,600 At the makeshift Man-Ray Studios in Akron, Ohio, where barrels of soap were rolled away to make room for recording, guitarist Wilbur Niles and his then-girlfriend, Machelle McNeal, recorded "Ja Ja" Niles, a history major, titled it after King Jaja,...
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Thrust barely made a blip in the marketplace; it was mostly available around the Akron area But Niles was undeterred He returned the following year with the just-as-good Thrust Too, which is a touch more muscular, more precise — partly due to being recorded in a slightly upgraded studio meant for jingles What Thrust Too loses in...
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Vijana Wa Kazi is a Kenyan benga rarity by one of the country's leading 70's groups that compiles several of their singles into a standalone album Led by the late John Otonde, the group issued nearly two dozen 7” singles between 1976 and the early 1980s The album has been remastered by Jason NeSmith at Chase Park...
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Reissue of Hideo Shiraki Quintet's 'Play Horace Silver' album Led by Japanese jazz drummer and bandleader, Hideo Shiraki, known for his hard bop and jazz albums in the 1950s and 1960s Horace usually had a quintet on albums, whereas Hideo's group is a sextet with Hidehiko Matsumoto on tenor and flute, Akira Fukuhara on...
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Alongside the likes of As-Shams recording artists Pat Matshikiza and Tete Mbambisa, Lionel Pillay was one of the legendary pianists to emerge during the golden age of South Africa jazz in the 1960s A sideman to and friend of Winston Mankunku Ngozi, Pillay appears on the most lauded historic recording from this era – the Mankunku...
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Following the April 2022 reissue of the album Shrimp Boats, We Are Busy Bodies presents companion titles Plum and Cherry and Deeper in Black to round out a Lionel Pillay and Basil Mannenberg Coetzee “trilogy” as part of the label’s As-Shams South African jazz archive series The connection between these three albums is tight...
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The music Coltrane, Tyner and others did back in their prime made a sizable ripple in jazz Many went on to emulate their style well after the originators either died or moved on For the most part I find these emulator (or keepers of the flame, to be more polite) to be either alright or great Kohsuke Mine Quintet is one of those...
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We Are Busy Bodies explores the works of Venezuelan pianist, Virgilio Armas with the reissues of De Repente and Espejismo De Repente is a more traditional jazz album with Armas own interpretation and improvisations leading the trio, which included Rodolfo Buenaño and Guillermo...
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We Are Busy Bodies is proud to reissue two albums by Ian Carr's Nucleus, including 1974's Under The Sun Originally released on Vertigo and not reissued since The album has been remastered by Noah Mintz at Lacquer Channel RecordingThe album artwork is melancholy and reflects the overall feel of the album, which is more downtempo in...
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We Are Busy Bodies is proud to reissue two albums by Ian Carr's Nucleus, starting with 1975's Alleycat Originally released on Vertigo as the group's final release for the label, the album has been remastered by Noah Mintz at Lacquer Channel Recording The album was released the same year as Snakehips Etcetera and finds the same...
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We Are Busy Bodies is back with two additional reissues by The Drive to follow up 2021's 'Can You Feel It' reissue Drive Unlimited and Drive Live were two of four releases by the prolific group in...
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We Are Busy Bodies is back with two additional reissues by The Drive to follow up 2021's 'Can You Feel It' reissue Drive Unlimited and Drive Live were two of four releases by the prolific group in...
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Remastered reissue from original tape transfers Piero Umiliani's 1968 album Playtime was originally issued on the Omicron label It has been remastered by Noah Mintz at Lacquer Channel Mastering Licensed from Liuto Edizioni...
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We Are Busy Body presents the remastered reissue of Mario Molino's 1971 album, Beat Gregoriano Remastered by Noah Mintz from Lacquer Channel...
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We Are Busy Bodies announces the officially licensed reissue of the 1966 cosmic, free jazz album Zodiac by French saxophonist and composer Barney Wilen The album’s astrological theme and Robert Crumb-esque comic-book style cover art, illustrated by the renowned cartoonist Siné, marks it as a European parallel to the burgeoning...
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Assembling unreleased recordings from 1979 and 1980, Shrimp Boats is a South African jazz archival compilation from 1987 built around its epic side-long title track featuring saxophonist Basil "Mannenberg" Coetzee The recording was made during pianist Lionel Pillay's November 1979 session with Coetzee for the As-Shams/The Sun...
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Originally released in 1976, Ubok Aka Inua is the fifth album by legendary Nigerian saxophonist and band leader, Etubom Rex Williams The album features Psychedelic Shoes and One Woman Is Enough Trouble, both heard on countless funk and soul compilations The album was restored from the original tapes by Noah Mintz and artwork...
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We Are Busy Bodies exploration of Vis-A-Vis catalogue continues with a remastered reissue of their album Di Wo Ho Ni The band continued to be the backing band of choice of some of Ghana's biggest and most famous musicians all while recording their own albums The album has been remastered by Noah Mintz at Lacquer Channel, with art...
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As both a popular live act and in-demand studio musicians, Vis-A-Vis released 13 albums between 1975 and 1982, of which Obi Agye Me Dofo remains the most sought after Led by vocalist Isaac “Superstar” Yeboah and featuring Sammy Cropper on guitar, Slim Manu on bass and Gybson “Shaolin Kung-Fu” Papra on drums, Vis-A-Vis...
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As both a popular live act and in-demand studio musicians, Vis-A-Vis released 13 albums between 1975 and 1982 Led by vocalist Isaac “Superstar” Yeboah and featuring Sammy Cropper on guitar, Slim Manu on bass and Gybson “Shaolin Kung-Fu” Papra on drums, Vis-A-Vis helped propel K Frimpong to fame as one of Ghana’s most...
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We Are Busy Bodies is excited to announce a limited edition Canadian reissue of saxophonist Winston 'Mankunku' Ngozi's 1968 masterpiece Yakhal'inkomo Remastered by Noah Mintz at Lacquer Channel from the original 1/4 master tapes, Yakhal'Inkomo is a truly essential jazz recording of the South African apartheid era Mankunku's...
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