Little Caesar And The Euterpeans
It Was Love / Big Ole Good Thing

Killer trip into unknown South-East Asian Melayu & Pinoy Funk - Rare Groove -Deep Soul - Disco & AOR!

These days, Hamad Kalkaba is a retired Army colonel and track and field athletics administrator in his native Cameroon. Yet back in the mid 1970s, he was a musician with dreams of potential super-stardom, trying to update traditional Cameroonian "Gandjal" music for the funk generation. To that end, he recorded a small number of singles and EPs alongside his backing band, the Golden Sounds. It's those thoroughly obscure and overlooked releases that make up Hamad Kalkaba & The Golden Sounds, a retrospective of his pioneering work. Sitting somewhere between Afro-beat, Afro-funk and Afro-jazz, with a distinctively Cameroonian rhythmic swing, the music showcased on the album is undeniably special.

Inspired by the slightly unlikely collision of the Thai music of the '70s and The Shadows, Khruangbin - the name means 'aeroplane' in Thailand - are purveyors of a deliriously mellow and beguiling form of jammed-out power-trio guitar music - far removed from standard notions of psych and dreampop, partly owing to its pan-global influences, its nonetheless both psychedelic and dreamy, not to mention possessed of an unhurried, reflective and spacious lilt that renders this Texan-London outfit a rare treat in an information-saturated age, taking on delicate soul and funk with exotic atmospheres and making the journey feel both blissful and effortless.

First Word Records is very pleased to present a brand new full-length album from Sarah Williams White! Emanating from the "hilly fields of Lewisham" in South London, Sarah Williams White is a singer songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer. Her sound is a unique blend of psych-soul, folktronica and experimental synth-pop.Sarah released her acclaimed debut album 'Of The New World' on First Word in 2015, which was written, produced and performed by Sarah from her home studio, with the assistance of drummer, engineer & husband, Timmy Rickard. Her projects have seen support from the likes of Lauren Laverne, Tom Ravenscroft, Nemone & Chris Hawkins (BBC 6 Music), Jamie Cullum (BBC Radio 2), FIP Radio, Clash & The Guardian, to name a few, and she's toured the UK with Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip and Golden Rules (Lex). There have been additional collaborations with label-mate Quiet Dawn (on the 2021 compilation / EP 'A Family Affair') and with her brother, Paul White - a revered producer in his own right, with credits including Danny Brown and Sudan Archives.

The Winston Brothers, formation de funk allemande, sort son tout premier album, Drift, sur Colemine Records. L’album invite les auditeurs dans un voyage instrumental futuriste. Mais ne vous y trompez pas : bien que profondément ancré dans la tradition funk, The Winston Brothers n’est pas un groupe poussiéreux. The Winston Brothers est le projet studio du multi-instrumentiste et producteur hambourgeois Sebastian Nagel (The Mighty Mocambos, Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band) et du batteur / percussionniste Lucas Kochbeck (The KBCS, Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band, Hamburg Spinners). Vétérans de la musique avec un penchant pour la production analogique, les deux hommes combinent un état d’esprit boom bap avec un sens aigu du funk et collaborent fréquemment pour créer des arrangements dynamiques, à la fois clin d’œil au passé du genre et musique contemporaine organique. Avec sa batterie lourde, ses breaks juteux, ses grooves entêtants, ses riffs brûlants et ses instrumentaux mélodiques, Drift puise dans l’énergie brute du funk des années 60 et 70. Les motifs répétitifs et accrocheurs évoluent vers des paysages sonores vibrants, avec une dynamique propre, allant de l’incendiaire au cool, voire à l’onirique. The Winston Brothers sont prêts à illuminer pistes de danse, croisières fluviales et barbecues !