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Mama Terra

The Summoned

    New Acid Jazz signing Mama Terra is the brainchild of Glaswegian pianist and composer Marco Cafolla, who conceived The Summoned during lockdown. Playing piano and bass keys, he used hip hop and modern American Jazz drummer samples to create a rhythm section. 

    The stems were sent to Orangefish Studio in Brooklyn, NYC where Derek Neivergelt (Terrance Blanchard) Evan Pazner (Lee Fields) added a live rhythm section, with guest trumpet solos from Jeremy Pelt. The Summoned is a conceptual journey through life and the universe – a new an invigorated take on spiritual jazz with a sprinkling of soul. 



    TRACK LISTING

    1. Ruptura
    2. Sunday
    3. The Summoned
    4. A Mind Supreme
    5. Novo
    6. Radio Silence
    7. Last Hour
    8. Like Tears In Rain

    Sebastian Williams

    Get Your Point Over / I Don't Care What Mama Said (Baby I Need You)

      Originally released on the Ovide label from Houston, Texas in 1970 and currently going for around £175, if you can find a copy.

      Get Your Point Over is a brass-led funky dancer that beautifully compliments Sebastian Williams’ soulful vocal style, while the flipside, I Don't Care What Mama Said (Baby I Need You), is a slower groove that lets that vocal really soar, arriving complete with a groovy psychedelic guitar break before Williams testifies to his lady amid some punchy brass stabs.

      Two stellar tunes from Sebastian Williams (aka Roger Williams of no-hit wonders The Quarter Notes), whose solo recording career amounted to just three 45s, all five years apart, along with a couple of releases as Sebastian And The House Rockers and finally, in 1975, just Sebastian.

      Imagine vintage Tavares lead singer Chubby Tavares at his gritty best with a funky brass section in a soulful Harold Melvin And The Blue Notes- styled blast. Both tracks mastered from the original sound source for maximum soul sound

      TRACK LISTING

      1. Get Your Point Over
      2. I Don’t Care What Mama Said (Baby I Need You)

      McKinley Dixon

      For My Mama And Anyone Who Look Like Her

      Richmond, Virginia-based artist McKinley Dixon has always used his music as a tool for healing, exploring, and unpacking the Black experience in order to create stories for others like him. For My Mama And Anyone Who Look Like Her, Dixon’s debut album on Spacebomb, is the culmination of a journey where heartbreak and introspection challenged him to adapt new ways of communicating physically and mentally, as well as across time and space. The language accessibility aspect of this project draws right back to communication and connecting,”

      Dixon explains. “I think about the messaging, and how this can be a way for another Black person, someone who looks like me, to listen to this and process the past. Everything I've learned about communication for this album culminates with this bigger question about time. Is time linear when you’re still healing and processing? Westerners look at time travel as something to conquer or control—it's a colonizer mindset. That’s ignoring how time travel can be done through stories and non-verbal communication, and doesn't acknowledge how close indigenous people are to the land and the connections groups have because they’ve existed somewhere for so long. Storytelling is time travel, it's taking the listener to that place. Quick time travel. Magic.” Never relying solely on beats, Dixon taps into a hybrid of jazz and rap, pulling in an array of piercing strings, soulful horns, percussion, and angelic vocalists throughout the album—plus features by Micah James, Lord Jah-Monte Ogbon, Pink Siifu, and more. Jazz instrumentals add a level of uncertainty, with the sounds and shifts evoking a lot of emotion and vulnerability.

      It’s an energy he describes as “Pre-Kendrick Lamar To Pimp A Butterfly,” the era when rap adopted more live instrumentation. The best way to sum up this album is: I was sad, I was mad, and now I’m alive,” Dixon explains. “These things I talk about on the record have had harmful and brilliant effects on my timeline, and have forced me to be cognizant of the fact that living is complex. Rap has allowed me the language to communicate, and be someone who can communicate with people from all over. Knowing how far I’ve come, I think people will find trust in the message I’m sending.”

      TRACK LISTING

      1 Chain Sooo Heavy
      2 Never Will Know
      3 Bless The Child
      4 Make A Poet Black
      5 Protective Styles
      6 Swangin’
      7 Brown Shoulders
      8 B.B.N.E
      9 Grown Man Voice
      10 Mama’s Home
      11 Twist My Hair

      Haley Heynderickx

      I Need To Start A Garden

        Haley Heynderickx's highly anticipated debut album premiered in full on NPR Music who interviewed Heynderickx on the record and her process. Speaking to the time between her debut EP and the album Heynderickx says she "wanted it to feel intimate. It feels like a conversation to me, getting to play a show. And now making a show for an invisible person, I have no idea how people can intake and receive music without the external stimuli [of a live performance]. It felt like a different craft, so it took me a long time." Stereogum's Tom Breihan praised Heynderickx and I Need To Sart A Garden saying "Heynderickx is the sort of virtuoso who puts her gifts toward making richer, more intricate, more deeply felt music" and Brooklyn Vegan said "Haley has gotten a lot of Angel Olsen comparisons, and they definitely have a similar sound, but Haley is a force of her own." The CBC premiered the album in Canada and praised Heynderickx saying "the best songwriting and singing of the year can be found on I Need to Start a Garden" while in the same breath comparing her to Angel Olsen, Feist and Joni Mitchell.

        "Haley Heynderickx's songs alternately shimmer with playfulness and shudder with earnestness; one moment, they take a magnifying glass to bemusing, mundane details, and the next, they pose startling existential queries." - Pitchfork

        "Every once in a while, amid the swirling chaos of the music world, a song comes along that stops time" - Gold Flake Paint



        TRACK LISTING

        1. No Face
        2. The Bug Collector
        3. Jo
        4. Worth It
        5. Show You A Body
        6. Untitled God Song
        7. Oom Sha La La
        8. Drinking Song

        The Mothers Earth Experiment

        Cool Down Mama

          THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2017 EXCLUSIVE, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

          The Mothers Earth Experiment is a six piece contemporary progressive outfit from the UK. The band pride themselves on their eclectic mix of inspirations and style to weave detailed sonic tapestries of dense psychedelic atmospheres, rhythmic drive and emotive melodies. 'Cool Down Mama' is the first glimpse of their much awaited debut album. With a non-LP B-side, this single represents their message of social and ecological consciousness that is further expanded on in their self titled album to be released in the Spring of 2017. They released their debut E.P ‘Don’t Speak Against the Sun’ in september 2015 and their first show supporting Gong has
          led to a series of dynamic performances across the UK. The band is proud to have provided support for such artists as Syd Arthur, Purson, Acid Mothers Temple, Nicholas Allbrook (Pond, Tame Impala), Braids, Arthur Brown and Soft Machine. individually numbered limited edition of 500.


          Erykah Badu

          Mama's Gun

            'Mama's Gun' is the second studio album by neo soul singer Erykah Badu, released in 2000. Recorded at Electric Lady Studios in New York City, the album incorporates funk, soul and jazz styles. Covering themes of insecurity, social issues and personal relationships, Badu delivered a highly intimate and personal album that reached Platinum two months after its release. 'Mama's Gun' features substantial contributions from several members of the Soulquarians outfit, of which Badu was a member. It also features guests such as soul singer Betty Wright and trumpeter Roy Hargrove.

            The album contains the single "Bag Lady" which, with its colorful, artsy music video, shot to #1 on the R&B charts, and also into the Top 10 on the billboard charts. "Bag Lady" was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance and for Best R&B Song. Also the song "Didn't Cha Know?" was nominated for Best R&B Song.

            Rolling Stone magazine applauded her for taking "chances the way Stevie Wonder or Nina Simone did in their prime" and went on to say "she has taken her art to the next level." Entertainment Weekly called the album a "'70s soul homage featuring live musicians and a smooth-funk sound that wouldn't be out of place on a CTI record."



            TRACK LISTING

            SIDE A
            1. Penitentiary Philosophy
            2. Didn't Cha Know
            3. My Life
            4. ... & On

            SIDE B
            1. Cleva
            2. Hey Sugah
            3. Booty
            4. Kiss Me On My Neck (Hesi)
            5. A.D. 2000

            SIDE C
            1. Orange Moon
            2. In Love With You
            3. Bag Lady

            SIDE D
            1. Time's A Wastin
            2. Green Eyes

            Mama Rosin

            Bye Bye Bayou

              Post-punk roots rockers rip It up and start again. "Bye Bye Bayou" is Mama Rosin's breakthrough album: here the Swiss trio create a sound unlike any other band on earth. This is rock'n'roll at its most primal, warped and obsessive, where Lower East Side hustlers go alligator hunting. Put simply: 'Bye Bye Bayou' is bad-ass.

              Long celebrated as a seminal live band, Mama Rosin's unique vision - Louisiana swamp grooves meet New York's CBGB white heat / white noise! - found legendary American rocker Jon Spencer embracing the band. Matching Mama Rosin with Jon Spencer proved a marriage made in rock'n'roll heaven: rich in texture and flavour, 'Bye Bye Bayou' stands tall as 2012's most uncompromising album.

              ''Mama Rosin are a rare band that combine familiar influences in subtle and striking ways to achieve a wholly unique and very personal form of music'' Jon Spencer

              STAFF COMMENTS

              Philippa says: Country cajun blues punk? From Switzerland? Recommended by Jon Spencer!


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