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Urlaub In Polen

Objects, Beings & Parrots

    Please keep moving, please don't stop here! Even more than two decades after their formation, Urlaub in Polen continue to celebrate an aesthetic of transience — an experience bounded by time, poured into the project’s very name — set against a continuous flow of new impressions and a suitcase slowly filling with memorabilia. After a longer hiatus, their 2020 album 'All' marked a return with a warped take on krautrock, a direction which their new release 'Objects, Beings and Parrots' both follows and expands upon. In true eclectic tradition, it ventures further into diverse genre territories — always exploratory, yet never losing its thread. Multi-instrumentalist Georg Brenner and drummer Jan Philipp Janzen blaze a trail through a dense web of references (see also the cover collage merging tile selections, retro interior suggestions, and archaeology textbook cutouts), evoking a warm feeling of being taken along for the ride — even as the band refuses to be pinned down to any clear musical category.

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    1. Abacus
    2. Washing Machine
    3. Opposite Day
    4. Fame & Fortune
    5. Face Of Reason
    5. Objects, Beings & Parrots
    6. Jaki's Love Time
    7. Moonwalk
    8. Yours

    Makaya McCraven

    Universal Beings - IARC Anniversary Edition

      The 2018 release of Universal Beings, in many ways, feels like the moment that the dam broke for both Makaya McCraven and International Anthem. On one hand, it's a four-sided communal showcase of the inter-city exchange that had started to develop in the “new jazz” hubs, collecting group improvisations from New York, London, Chicago, and Los Angeles. On the other, it is an editing and post-production masterclass – the MVP of McCraven’s “organic beat music” concept – and a landmark moment where his cut-splice-reassembly chops shine as brightly as the players themselves.

      The musicians on the album were a combined who’s-who and who’s-gonna-be-who of their respective scenes: Brandee Younger (harp), Joel Ross (vibraphone), Tomeka Reid (cello), Dezron Douglas (double bass), Shabaka Hutchings (tenor saxophone), Junius Paul (double bass), Nubya Garcia (tenor saxophone), Ashley Henry (Rhodes piano), Daniel Casimir (double bass), Josh Johnson (alto saxophone), Miguel Atwood-Ferguson (violin), Jeff Parker (guitar), Anna Butterss (double bass), and Carlos Niño (percussion). In our original press release, we called it “an inspiring display of the organic global inter-connectedness of the Black American music tradition in 2018.” Not in the press release, in our off-the-record conversations at the time, we said it was ‘like Dr. Dre’s The Chronic, but for jazz’.

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      Disc 1 – Side A (New York Sessions)
      1. A Queen’s Intro
      2. Holy Lands (feat. Brandee Younger)
      3. Young Genius (feat. Joel Ross)
      4. Black Lion (feat. Dezron Douglas)
      5. Tall Tales (feat. Tomeka Reid)

      Disc 1 – Side B (New York Sessions Continued)
      6. Mantra
      7. Pharaoh’s Intro
      8. Atlantic Black
      9. Inner Flight

      Disc 2 – Side C (London Sessions)
      10. Wise Man, Wiser Woman (feat. Shabaka Hutchings)
      11. Prosperity’s Fear (feat. Junius Paul)
      12. Flipped OUT
      13. Voila (feat. Daniel Casimir)

      Disc 2 – Side D (London Sessions Continued)
      14. Suite Haus (feat. Nubya Garcia, Ashley Henry)
      15. Butterss’s Fly
      16. The Way Home
      17. Kings & Queens
      18. The Loneliness

      Audio-visual artist Raimund Wong (Floating World Pictures) and unboundaried composer Suren Seneviratne (My Panda Shall Fly / Soundway) present their debut album on London's ever experimental Kit Records. Interweaving folk, ambient and free improvisation,

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      1. Shells (feat. Yoshino Shigihara)
      2. Farewell (Jen)
      3. Power And Sleep
      4. Of Living
      5. Swan Song (PSS)
      6. After Lunch Khæn (feat. Dominic Kennedy)
      7. Yuki-Onna (feat. Clive Bell)
      8. Eternal Undulation (feat. Maxwell Hallett)
      9. Present (Jen) [feat. Francesca Ter-Berg]

      Beings

      There Is A Garden

        Beings are... Zoh Amba, Steve Gunn, Shazad Ismaily & Jim White.

        On Beings’ There Is A Garden, shapeshifting melodies highlight each players’ voice. In one second, the album may sound hectic, teeming with craggy, unpredictable melodies, but by the time the next track rolls around, it’ll transform into a psychedelic reverie or blossom into a sprawling drone. For Beings, the NYC-based supergroup quartet of Zoh Amba, Steve Gunn, Shahzad Ismaily, and Jim White, the music fl­ows naturally: It’s an ever-transforming organism built on the quartet’s openness and willingness to explore, together.

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        1. Small Vows
        2. Flowers That Talk
        3. God Dances In Your Eyes
        4. In The Garden
        5. Face Of Silence
        6. Sun Greeted
        7. Happy To Be
        8. Morning Star
        9. Do Come Again

        Thought Beings

        Neon Beach

          With music inspired by Afro-Carribean, Hawaiian, and Japanese influences mixed with Synthwave, Synthpop, and colorful 80's nostalgia Neon Beach is The band's third studio album 'Neon Beach' is based on a short story written by the main producer. It is a story of holograms and simulations emanating from a neurological program called Neon Beach. It is a dystopian story dressed in a utopian world as heard in the flashy 80s Pop Music and dark esoteric lyrics on the album. Thought Beings embrace ancient esoteric mysteries by dressing them up in brightly colored 80s fashion and making them palatable to the world. 'Neon Beach' is no different in its attempt to tell a deeply introspective story while dancing by the ocean in the neon lights. This album is fun, colorful, unapologetically retro, and full of ancient secrets.

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          LP
          SIDE A

          1. Neon Beach
          2. Satellite
          3. Digital Hideaway
          4. Mystery School
          5. Paradise

          SIDE B
          1. Sundown
          2. Feel Alive
          3. Rain
          4. Fortress

          CD-R
          1. Neon Beach
          2. Satellite
          3. Digital Hideaway
          4. Mystery School
          5. Paradise
          6. Sundown
          7. Feel Alive
          8. Rain
          9. Fortress

          A new project by Chicago-based drummer/producer Makaya McCraven. An addendum to his critically-acclaimed 2018 release Universal Beings, which The New York Times said "affirms the drummer and beatsmith's position as a major figure in creative music," Universal Beings E&F Sides presents fourteen new pieces of organic beat music cut from the original sessions, prepared and produced by Makaya as a soundtrack to the Universal Beings documentary film.

          Directed by Mark Pallman, the Universal Beings documentary follows Makaya to Los Angeles, Chicago, London and New York City for a behind the scenes look into the making of the artists breakthrough album, taking the viewer through the story of Makaya's life, his process and the community of musicians that helped bring this project to life. The Universal Beings documentary and Universal Beings E&F Sides album will be released on International Anthem.

          Named one of the best jazz albums of 2018 by The New York Times, Rolling Stone, NPR, Stereogum, Billboard, SPIN, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, and more, Universal Beings was recorded at four sessions in New York, Chicago, London and Los Angeles, and features some of the best "new" jazz players from those hot bed cities: Brandee Younger, Tomeka Reid, Dezron Douglas, Joel Ross, Shabaka Hutchings, Junius Paul, Nubya Garcia, Daniel Casimir, Ashley Henry, Josh Johnson, Jeff Parker, Anna Butters, Carlos Niño and Miguel-Atwood Ferguson - all of whom are on the forthcoming Universal Beings E&F Sides.

          TRACK LISTING

          A1. Everybody Cool
          A2. Half Steppin'
          A3. Mak Attack
          A4. The Hunt
          A5. Beat Science
          A6. Dadada
          A7. Isms
          B8. Traveling Space
          B9. Kings And Queens
          B10. The Loneliness
          B11. Her Name
          B12. Universal Beings Pt 2
          B13. Butterss Fly
          B14. The Way Home


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