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Finally, a much-needed re-issue of Luiz Eça's Mexican only Brazilian release 'La Nueva Onda De Brasil' on ViNiLiSSSiMO Records, re-issued in the mid-2000s, it's long been out of print. The album features a whole host of Brazilian greats such as Joyce, Wilson Simonal, and Naná Vasconcelos. A highly recommended Brazilian masterpiece!

One of this year’s breakout success stories from the UK’s current thriving independent music scene,critically acclaimed seven-piece Black Country, New Road present here their highly anticipated secondalbum ‘Ants From Up There’ via Ninja Tune. Debut album ‘For the first time’ was shortlisted for the 2021 Hyundai Mercury Prize. The bandperformed ‘Track X’ live on BBC 4. ‘Ants From Up There’ was written in lockdown in the early part of 2021 when the band were unable togo on tour as planned to support their album release. The result is a stunning collection of songs and amove in direction to a more crossover, alternative sound beyond the experimental and ‘post-punk’nature of their debut. New album expands on their unique concoction to create a singular sonic middle ground that traversesclassical minimalism, indie-folk, pop, alt rock and a distinct tone that is already unique to the band. Extensive global touring in 2022, including their biggest London show to date at the Roundhouse, fullUK and European Tour in April/ May. Sold out 2021 shows include Brighton, Liverpool, Manchester,Birmingham, Glasgow, Bristol and Dublin and more. 2021 festival dates include End Of The Road, Latitude, Fusion, Roskilde, Dour, Bol Festival, Pohoda,Le Guess Who, Dour. In 2022 they’ll play Primavera Sound, Dour, Way Out West, Bad Bonn Kilbi, BolFestival. For fans of IDLES, Black Midi, Squid, Phoebe Bridgers, Jockstrap, Nick Cave, The National,Radiohead.

First ever reissue of highly sought after french jazz funk fusion nugget from Alain Bellaïche featuring, Jerry Goodman (Mahavishnu Orchestra), John Hicks (Strata-East) & Fabiano (Fabiano Orchestra).A Frenchman who is returning (but who we seem to discover!) from the USA is something unusual. Everything seemed to start out well for Alain Bellaïche: Born in Tunis, childhood in Cannes, studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, his first folk concerts folk in youngsters’ houses and clubs where everyone was well behaved …Then, in 1973, he left for the States. Bellaïche would settled for around ten years, with, as a soundtrack, the two albums that he would record there. Metropolitain, which was the fruit of his collaboration with the Heldon guitarist Alain Renaud, and Sea Fluorescent. In the catalogue of Asylum, David Geffen’s first label, Bellaïche’s music was listed alongside that of the Byrds, Tom Waits, Joni Mitchell, and Bob Dylan.In a Rock & Folk, interview Bellaïche expressed his regrets as to the prudence of French musicians: “I never had a group… perhaps the guys here are not motivated to play this kind of music”. We should note that the influences of our expatriate were, for example, Led Zeppelin, John McLaughlin, Weather Report, Herbie Hancock, The Spencer Davis Group…Bellaïche, a multi-faceted and iconoclastic musician, composed Sea Fluorescent just following his desires: from a cosmic ballad (St Andrea), to West Coast funk (California), dreamlike Spanish influences (Spanish Roots), optimistic blues (Foolin’ Myself), a solar track (I’m Angry, Sun Blues) … And the Frenchman was in good company: Jean-François Fabiano (from Fabiano Orchestra) on drums and percussions, Jerry Mahavishnu Goodman on violin on Got My Place In That Country, Wornell Jones on bass or John Hicks whose cascades of notes bring Reggae & Western closer to the ‘reassembled’ jazz that the pianist was playing at the time…When, finally, after the fabulous declinations of the title track of the album, we hear a bonus on which Bellaïche sings in French, it is time for a Chacha émotionnel on which offers this horrible confession: “I’m not from around here, I come from a backward country”. Thanks to Souffle Continu, France is finally catching up.Remastered from the master tapes.Restored artwork + 12 page booklet.Licensed from Alain Bellaïche.

Orchestre Massako ‎– Tu Tchika-Tchika A Gogo is a top Soukous Album from Gabon. Self produced project