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These undeniably soulful, passionate, and urgent songs from obscure 45’s, dug up from a long dormancy in attics, sheds and crates across the American south, are a subset of seventies-era gospel, focusing not on Jesus or God, but instead on ourselves, and how we exist with each other. Compiled by Greg Belson.
World Spirituality Classics 2:
The Time For Peace Is Now:
Gospel Music About Us
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Bremer/McCoy is a Danish duo of Jonathan Bremer on acoustic bass and Morten McCoy on the keys and tape delay. While the two started as a reggae group (believe it or not), their sound has transformed into an amorphous mix of jazz, dub, and neo-classical. Utopia encapsulates what Bremer/McCoy do best: kaleidoscopic instrumental music, touching a multiverse of genre that evokes passion and promotes contemplation.
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Tim Jones is known by several different monikers; Preacherman, Midi Man and Ironing Board Band to name a few. Though perhaps his most notable is the one that describes him best, T.J. Hustler. We are excited to announce the release of Universal Philosophy - Preacherman Plays T.J. Hustler's Greatest Hits out now!

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Kassin - Relax

Over the course of his career, Kassin has produced roughly 100 records for singers like Marisa Monte and Bebel Gilberto, recorded with Sean O’Hagan and made a full album based on Nintendo GameBoy sounds.

Across 11 tracks, Kassin flirts with Latin rhythms, Brazilian pop, and straight-ahead soul, using this varied sonic array to tell imagined tales of death, drug usage, politics and fate.

 
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Domenico Lancellotti - The Good is a Big God

“Working with music is crazy,” multi-instrumentalist Domenico Lancellotti recently said in an interview. “God be crazy. Out of fear.” He’s right. To do anything creative is to exist outside your body, to teeter between reality and sanity. It’s from this mindset that Domenico created his new work, The Good is a Big God, a 14-track collection of reflective samba that first took shape almost six years ago.

We feel very honored to announce the release of “World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda” - the first-ever compilation of Alice Coltrane’s spiritual recordings from the Sai Anantam Ashram in California” Read more here..

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YOU ARE INVITED—PROMISES: THROUGH CONGRESS

A few weeks ago we released Promises, an extraordinary new album by Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders and the London Symphony Orchestra. Five years in the making, the album cover features the painting Congress by Julie Mehretu, visible through three trapezoids. Today, we are proud to announce the world premiere of Promises: Through Congress, a new film and collaboration between Julie Mehretu, Sam Shepherd (aka Floating Points) and filmmaker Trevor Tweeten, which will premiere in partnership with the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City and The Broad in Los Angeles. Read More…




Out now! “Promises” by Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra
Floating-Points-Pharoah-Sanders-1-photo-by-Eric-Welles-Nyström

Today, we are incredibly happy to share “Promises” with you, the new album by Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders and the London Symphony Orchestra. Available now wherever you listen. Read more…




You Are Invited
Promises: Chapter I
Sunday, March 21

Today, we would like to invite you to Promises: Chapter I, a non-visual experience taking place on Sunday March 21st at 11:00am PT (Los Angeles) / 2:00pm EDT (New York) / 6:00pm GMT (London). Read more…




Announcing: Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra

On this day we are incredibly proud to announce Promises, a new album by Floating Points and Pharoah Sanders, featuring the London Symphony Orchestra and artwork by Julie Mehretu. The LP comes in a gatefold jacket with die cut shapes that show through to a fantastic painting by Julie Mehretu. There’s also a limited edition




Happy Birthday Tim Maia!!!

8 years ago we celebrated Tim’s 70th birthday by releasing ‘Nobody Lives Forever: The Existential Soul of Tim Maia’ and hosting massive birthday parties all over the globe. Today would have been Tim’s 78th birthday, and our dear friends at Rough Trade are helping us celebrate with a super and limited edition of our album.




Doug Hream Blunt the movie

At some point in your life or maybe all your life you’ve wanted to be in a band and play for adoring fans. Right?

Male nurse turned Luaka artist / cult icon Doug Hream Blunt wanted that too and at the age of 35 sought to make it happen by signing up for a class called ‘How To Form A Band’. Thirty years later Luaka Bop released My Name Is Doug Hream Blunt and catapulted Doug to superstardom.

Now available for the first time to you, the masses, is a wonderful film called ‘HREAM: A Documentary About Doug Hream Blunt’ that tells this story and charts how Doug went from performing only for his hospital patients at the Laguna Honda Hospital to playing shows in New York City, Los Angeles, Moscow and Tasmania with a bunch of amateurs, semi-professional and professional musicians from all over the world and even some actually pretty famous people like Peanut Butter Wolf and David Byrne. It premiered last week in The Quietus, who said: “Hug’s film is terrific…. It presents in Blunt a truly inspirational figure, whose enthusiasm for life and music is at the film’s heart.”