Our buddies over at Paris DJs are quickly becoming the go-to guys for offering up the next-to-impossible. First they tracked down the Natural Yogurt Band and posted a mix of the 70s oddities that influenced their Tuck In With… album – and now they’ve gone and tracked down Karl Hector and gleaned a mix of modal jazz from each corner of the globe.
Download the Mix : Karl Hector at Paris DJs
Tracklist and More: Karl Hector at Paris DJs.
A little while back we posted some photos of our forthcoming four LP box set of our True Soul, Deep Sounds From The Left Of Stax anthology.
We’re pleased to announce that we’re now offering a pre-sale of the CD/DVD of Vol. 1 at Stones Throw’s webstore!
This anthology – the first to survey the lofty 60s and 70s achievements of Lee Anthony’s legendary Little Rock, Arkansas-based True Soul Records – has been 13 (!) years in the making. It’s so expansive that we have to release it in two parts – the CD/DVD of Vol. 1 will be available worldwide on June 21st. The CD/DVD of Vol. 2 – and the deluxe, 4 LP vinyl box set – will be available in an exclusive pre-sale at Stones Throw in late June, and will be available worldwide on July 26th.
Buy: True Soul, Deep Sounds From The Left Of Stax Vol. 1
Download: Thomas East “Slipping Around” (45 Version).
More Info/Pictures: True Soul, Deep Sounds From The Left Of Stax Vol. 1.
Finally! A month (or more!) after we had to postpone this party, we’re back on line. The date – not to be missed – is May 22nd. We’re getting our records ready now…
We’re teaming up with our friends at World Psychedelic Funk Classics and palate food + wine to throw another in a long line of free listening parties, this time for the Psych Funk Sa-Re-Ga! anthology. Well, let’s clarify: entry is free, the sounds are free; you have to buy your own vino and food… We’ll be playing Indian psychedelia and funk all afternoon (and probably evening) and the palate folks – added again to Pulitzer Prize winning food critic Jonathan Gold’s “99 Essential LA Restaurants” list in the LA Weekly – will be dishing out some Indian street cuisine.
In case you missed out on our Sunday funk-fests before:
Pictures from our Weird Jazz Afternoon which we threw for our P.E Hewitt Winter Winds The Complete Works release.
Pictures from our Black Man’s Cry record release party.
We have to shout out our friends at Paris DJs and Nicolas Ragonneau from Musique Impures for doing what we thought was the impossible: tracking down the fellas in the Natural Yogurt Band, bargaining for a mix (featuring our mutual hero Galt MacDermot, naturally), and getting some background info on their until-now-rather-anonymous project. Well done guys!
Download the Mix : Natural Yogurt Band at Paris DJs
Tracklist and More: Natural Yogurt Band at Paris DJs.
Announcing the latest from Jay Whitefield’s Karl Hector & The Malcouns. Tamanrasset, a five-song, vinyl-only EP continues The Malcouns study of psych-funk and, of course, is influenced by all sides of the African diaspora.
This EP comes with original artwork by renowned graphic artist Kevin Lyons, hand screenprinted by Hit & Run. If you want a peek at the process, check out how the Hit & Run folks got down on one of Madlib’s recent Madlib Medicine Show releases here.
Download: Karl Hector & The Malcouns “Girma’s Lament.”
More Information: Karl Hector & The Malcouns Tamanrasset.