“Where words fail, music speaks”.
The words of the prophets are written on the studio walls (apologies to Paul Simon and a huge big up to whoever wrote that on the Phonic studio white board).
Some John Lee Hooker and Brownie McGee (& Sonny Terry) highlighting Val Wilmer’s Blue Moments, Black Sounds, her “unique retrospective of photographic work” at Worldly, Wicked & Wise Gallery, 81 Salusbury Road, London NW6 6NH – until 30 November wwwgallery@yahoo.com. And thanks as always to Richard Williams’s excellent The Blue Moment blog for the initial heads up. Evocative and intimate images of Miles Davis, Aretha, Sun Ra, Muddy Waters playing cards with Brownie McGee, Roosevelt Sykes, Hendrix, ecstatic blues dancers in the Deep South and loads more.
A couple from Joni celebrating her recent 80th birthday, cool hip hop from Illa J, an excellent Kokoroko remix (pictured), ‘new’ live Cal Tjader for Record Store Day, some LA Brainfeeder business from Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Celia Cruz with Johnny Pacheco, what’s not to like!
| corto.alto | Lara | Bad With Names |
| Resavoir | Sunday Morning | Resavoir |
| Illa J | RELAPSE | Download |
| Kokoroko | Somethings Going On (Miles James Remix) | Could We Be More Remixes |
| Ayala | Valley | Lost/Valley EP |
| Cal Tjader | Maramoor Mambo | Catch The Groove – Live at the Penthouse 1963-1967 |
| El Clan Antillano | Estas Equivocada | El Clan Antillano |
| El Clan Antillano | No Como Carreta | El Clan Antillano |
| Dominique Dalcan | Les tresors que j’ai en moi – feat Sulafa Elyas | Last Night A Woman Save My Life |
| Omri More & Yosef Gutman Levitt | Movement Nine – Sunshine | Melodies Of Light |
| Joni Mitchell | Conversation | Ladies Of The Canyon |
| Joni Mitchell | Dreamland | Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter |
| Takumi Moriya | Night Dream | 7’/Download |
| Miguel Atwood-Ferguson | Kairos (Kefi) | Les Jardins Mystiques Vol.1 |
| Special Feelings | Brain Fog | Download |
| Orchestra Fuego | Baila Mi Salsa (ft. Miguel Guerrero, Veronica Romero) | Download |
| Little Johnny Rivero Feat. Anthony Almonte | Lady Casanova | Mejor Que Nunca |
| Mike Dogliotti | Hagalo | 7″/Download |
| Pachyman | Sale el Sol | Switched On |
| John Lee Hooker | Dimples | Get On The Right Track: Mod R&B, Jazz & Ska |
| Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee | Walk On | |
| Tyler ICU & Tumelo.za | Mnike (feat. DJ Maphorisa, Nandipha808, Ceeka RSA & Tyron Dee) | Download |
| Orchestre International Karawa Musica | As Diop | Asouka |
| Ernie Agosto Y La Conspiracion | Se Que Tu | Afecto Y Carino |
| Celia Cruz & Johnny Pacheco | Despechado | De Nuevo |
| Lagos Thugs | Innocent Blood (Let it be known) | Download |
