We really enjoyed an album we released earlier this year with Stones Throw – Savath and Savalas’s La Llama. It served as an excellent summer soundtrack, with Eva Puyelo Muns’ breathy vocals sliding around casual melodies and caressing rough hewn beats crafted by Prefuse 73 and Roberto Carlos Lange. Well, summer’s gone, fall is upon us and winter will be here soon. So this new entry into the Savath and Savalas book – etched by a new production entity we know only as “The Predicate” (Prefuse knows all types) – fits perfectly.
Who woulda thunk it – “Catalan-folk-psych with minimalist-electronic-sensibilities” re-imagined as an excursion in neo-dub? Not us, but La Llama: The Semi Dub Porn Version eases us into autumn with a just enough bounce to remind us of the warm days past.
It will be up as a digital album this week Stones Throw’s webstore. We’ll be releasing part two of Roberto’s “Oscuro Como Boca De Lobo” podcast at the same time. Stay tuned.
You can now buy the latest Mr. Chop For Pete’s Sake album – his album of funky psychedelic jazz inspired by producer Pete Rock’s greatest beats – on Stones Throw’s Webstore. The album will hit stores in CD format and see wide digital release on 11.03.09; the album format will be slightly delayed.
Soon, Stones Throw’s webstore will offer an exclusive pre-sale on two 7″ singles related to the album – Mr. Chop, drummer Malcolm Catto and longtime Pete Rock partner CL Smooth’s vocal and instrumental takes on the classics “T.R.O.Y” and “Straighten It Out.” More info coming soon.
We’re almost there – we’ll be doing an exclusive launch of our officially licensed (and Kuti Estate approved) investigation into the influence and inspiration of Afrobeat godfather Fela Kuti on Stones Throw’s webstore in January. Worldwide release of our hardback CD/Book and 4 10″ LP Box Set in February. More details and track list to come soon.
Promotional Only. Free with your purchace of the Forge Your Own Chains LP.
Side A:
1. Guilty Simpson: My Time To Shine
2. Oh No: Feel Me
Side B:
3. Oh No: Loneliness
4. Oh No: Sensational Smash
NA 7021 7″ 2009
Side A, Track 1 produced by Egon and J.Rocc. Side A, Track 2 and Side B, Tracks 3 and 4 produced by Oh No. Created with samples taken from the Forge Your Own Chains compilation.
It was one of those last minute decisions – Madlib couldn’t make the Free Your Funk gig that he – along with myself, Karriem Riggins and J.Rocc – had agreed to. Denis, our loyal promoter, wouldn’t cancel the gig. What to do? Call Malcolm Catto and see if he could take the Eurostar from London to Paris on a moment’s notice. He brought along fellow Heliocentrics Jake Ferguson (bass) and Adey Owasu (guitar) and stole the show in front of 650 rather frenzied Stones Throw fans. This less-than-ten-minute section of their one hour jam session doesn’t come close to capturing the vibe in the cramped quarters of La Bellevilloise that Saturday, 6th of December 2008. But it’s still pretty damn cool.
Check out the Heliocentrics (as a trio) live at Free Your Funk Heliocentrics: “Live In Paris, December 2008.”
Check out photos from the night here.
