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The Unity Sextet is a special kind of band. The band members met in the spring of 2011 at jazz festivals where they were playing in different bands with different music styles. Co-incidentally they noticed that they shared the same vision of an open-minded, eclectic jazz style. Later they discovered that amazingly they all hailed from the same region of south-west England. It was like it was meant to be... Band leader/songwriter, Buddy Franco had an idea: being friends with renowned producer/recording artist, Lack of Afro, he asked if he would be up for an impromptu, spontaneous session with him as producer, arranger and engineer. The Unity Sextet was formed a couple of weeks later, setting up shop in the Playhouse recording studio where they lived and worked until the end of summer before moving to Lack of Afro's studio down the road near Exeter. The resulting album is simply called "The Unity Sextet“ and features thirteen original tracks. Think of Gilles Peterson’s legendary "That’s How It Is“ nights at Bar Rumba, Pharoah Sanders’ spiritual, outerwordly excursions, the cool grooves of A Tribe Called Quest or the relaxed sounds of the Horace Silver band and you're getting there. CD/vinyl album on Légère Recordings / CD on P-Vine in Japan

Electric Cowbell Records recently proudly announced the debut 7" release from Karthala 72 Dans Le Coeur Du Feu / Delores. Karthala 72 is the sound of a 1970′s psychedelic freakout only heavier than you ever heard it before! Tribal rhythms and hypnotic guitar from a time when the raw sound was king. Taking influence from the traditional music of the Comoros, to Anatolian bazaar jazz to the more familiar beat of percussion led afro funk. Karthala 72: this is just the beginning... Karthala 72 – Facebook / Karthala 72 – Myspace

In 2011 multi-instrumentalist, artist, producer, DJ and in demand remixer, Lack Of Afro collaborated on an album project with Eddie Roberts of The New Mastersounds, produced and played on the album Colours by Frootful and still found time to create what is, without doubt, his strongest album yet: This Time. A wide ranging and eclectic, progressive musical outlook is the Lack Of Afro approach and on this collection the music pulls together several strands into a fantastic, homogenous journey
. This Time is the Lack Of Afro album we've been waiting for. Considered, soulful, contemporary yet retro, accomplished certainly and setting standards in modern music others will struggle to follow. CD/vinyl album on Freestyle Records.


Sundazed Music has assembled Masterology: The Pioneers of New British Funk, which collects a career-spanning selection of highlights from The New Mastersounds' catalogue, along with a scintillating smattering of rarities. Distilling the band’s widescreen sonic vision into a massively impressive package, it’s a monumental testament to the New Mastersounds’ seminal body of work. The CD features 19 tracks drawn from the quartet’s history, while the double-LP gatefold edition—pressed on high-definition vinyl—contains 20 tracks. In any format, it’s a killer celebration of the New Mastersounds’ international funk uprising!

A couple of years ago when The New Mastersounds were touring & recording in Spain, guitarist/bandleader, Eddie Roberts joined forces with The Sweet Vandals' rhythm section, adding Chip Wickham's (Nightmares On Wax, Rae & Christian, The Pharcyde) world-class flute and Taz Modi's funktastic organ from Leeds/UK, and he sensed that this could be the beginning of something special. Eddie Roberts & The Fire Eaters - as the combo was called - started recording an album together in 2010 with Eddie producing and Burn! is proof that he was right! This highly acclaimed album really does deliver presenting future classic versions of acid jazz & soul tunes like I Believe In Miracles, Lope Song & Lonely For You Baby plus a clutch of original tunes such as Gutterball, Booga Lou (a tribute to Lou Donaldson) & The Skunk. Burn! takes you way back to the times when jazz had soul and there was freedom in the rhythm. CD/vinyl album on Légère Recordings / CD on P-Vine in Japan.

 

 


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August 2011 saw the release of The New Mastersounds seventh studio and first ever US recorded album Breaks From The Border. Breaks marks a new era in the band’s sonic landscape by topping their unique syncopated grooves with group vocals. After a major US festival tour, instead of flying home to England, the band diverted to El Paso, Texas, and headed to the outskirts of the border town of Tornillo and the Sonic Ranch studio. Drawing influences from Jimmies McGriff, Smith and Hendrix, as well as their mentors, The Meters, the band have produced an album packed with vintage soul-jazz, funk and solid dance grooves. Check out behind the scenes in Tornillo, TX during the making of Breaks in the video created by Ben Mears & Christopher Doody for amodernlove.com. CD/vinyl album on Tallest Man Records/The Orchard / CD on P-Vine in Japan.

Singer/songwriter/guitarist, Sam Hare's critically acclaimed debut album "Down To The Sea" features eleven self-penned originals which draw on Blues, Country & Southern Soul - an English version of Americana, a ‘real’ sounding rootsy album. A preview copy of Down To The Sea was quickly picked up by Robert Elms on BBC London, who was so impressed by the authentic sound of what he heard that he invited Sam to come in for an interview and live acoustic session. In the Spring Sam will be joining The Spikedrivers UK tour and he regularly gigs either solo or with his band that features Joe Glossop (Graffiti 6, Saint Jude, James Hunter) on Hammond organ, Fergus Hare on bass and Ed Green on drums.
 

Légère Recordings 15 track compilation album An Introduction To Eddie Roberts showcases music from Eddie's two solo albums Roughneck & Trenta and includes five previously unreleased tracks. Here you'll find Eddie’s classic signature tune Roughneck, his tribute to the sadly neglected Gabor Szabo with Szabo, the Acid Jazz touches on 24000 Baci & Strada Statale 163, the club grooves of Lack of Afro’s remix of Giorgio’s Brother & the hauntingly mellow Every Goodbye. This is stylish music, original music, that is beautifully played and created by the inspiration of the life and times of Eddie Roberts.  Released on Légère Recordings.

Music Like Dirt

 

Big World Publishing's subsidiary Music Like Dirt features some of the finest classic reggae from the 60's, 70's & 80's by reggae legends The Ethiopians, Rico, Byron Lee, Augustus Pablo, The Pioneers, Ansell Collins, The Vulcans, Frankie Paul and many more.

Leonard Dillon, founder of The Ethiopians passed away on Wednesday 28th September 2011 at his daughter Patrice's home in St. Andrew, Jamaica after a prolonged period of illness.

 

Big World Publishing's Patrick Meads said "Leonard Dillon was one of the founding fathers of reggae music and a truly great songwriter & artist and the music of his group, The Ethiopians will live on. I have been Leonard's friend & publisher for 25 years. He was a strong, warm and very humorous man who was always understated and modest as to his musical achievements. I will miss him." Read Leonard Dillon's obituary by David Katz in the Guardian.


In 1964, Leonard met Peter Tosh, who admired his original material and introduced him to the other members of the Wailers. In turn, the Wailers brought him to Clement 'Coxsone' Dodd's Studio One, where he made his first recordings under the name Jack Sparrow with the Wailers on backing vocals, Ice Water & Suffering On The Land.

Since these first recordings, he went on to record for every foundation producer of note including Sonia Pottinger, Carl "Sir J.J." Johnson, Duke Reid and Derrick Harriott. In 1967 The Ethiopians achieved the first internationally successful Rock Steady hit with Leonard's self-penned, Train To Skaville. During the 60's & 70's the self-penned hits continued for The Ethiopians with classics such as The Whip, Everything Crash & Hong Kong Flu.


Leonard's music provides the focus for two of Trojan Records releases - a limited 7" single and a CD version of The Ethiopians' classic debut album, Engine 54.


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