The Return of Quantic

Got some more music from Tru-Thoughts the other day, taken from two albums I am very excited about. First off a couple of tracks from Lizzy Parks forthcoming acoustic album. I've been excited about this album since I saw that acoustic video of "Raise the Roof", which I love. So the tracks sound really good, there really stripped bare which I love, takes music back to it's essential parts, great harmonies, rhythmic instruments, and top notch vocals, not to mention some Jazz Flute.

Next up my favorite, Quantic returns, this time equiped with his Colombian band, the Combo Barbaro. This stuff is shit hot, it's pretty much what you'd get if you can imagine mixing Quantic and the Buena Vista Social Club. Super Funky, love that slightly discordant piano and superb drumming, definitely gonna check out the live show @ the Roundhouse later this year.

Anyway here is Lizzy Park's acoustic version of her track "Raise The Roof" I had to put it on again. She sang it with a cold don't you know.

I'm back

So it has been a while since my last post, I've been well busy with uni work and personal issues. Anyway I'm back and ready to go and what better way to start than with a free CD. Hell yeah, I wasn't expecting it but this weekend gone I got Kinny's album "Idle Forest of Chit Chat" in the post. So even before I listened to the album I was in high spirits, but these were only hightened by listening to the ablum. I'd had the good fortune to listen to some of the album before it was released, but there were some undiscovered gems I hadn't heard. The album as a whole works really well, from the moment you take a glance at the artwork and the label (tru-thoughts) you know it's gonna be good. Petrified Dazed feat. TM Juke has got that early TM Juke sound and a little bit of Quanticnish too (yeah that's a word), horns, latin vibes, soulful vocals and tasty chord progressions, that's my kind of track. Other stand out tracks were the title track "Idle Forest of Chit Chat" one of two Souldrop productions on the album, I'm definitely gonna keep an eye out for Souldrop in the future. Actually I can't be bothered to list all the tracks I like, because it's the majority of the album, so yeah check it out and thank me later. Peace & Love

If your face was made of stone...

Yeah so how about some psychadelic funk from tru-thoughts courtesy of Stonephace, as played on worldwide this week gone released on the 20th of April this could be one of the albums of the year alongside Mulatu & The Heliocentrics.

"Veteran jazz dissident Larry Stabbins’s collaboration with enigmatic sonic alchemist Krzysztof Oktalski – a mind-bending mix of hip hop and externalist semantics.

Featuring Portishead’s Adrian Utley on guitar and Jim Barr on bass, plus a guest appearance from virtuoso trumpeter Guy Barker as you’ve never heard him before, Stonephace creates a unique universe where electronics, free jazz and Afro-tinged beats collide. Imagine a mix of Sun Ra, Fela Kuti, Pharaoh Sanders and early Soft Machine produced by Jay Dee and you might be getting close." (from tru-thoughts.co.uk)

Feeling Good

Just been listening to some quality music and made a nice laid back jazz mix which I will put up momentarily. But for the moment the sounds of the Quantic Soul Orchestra & Alice Russell:

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