- A1: Slip On Through (Sunflower Original Album)
- A27: Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song) (The Cotton Song)
- B1: Don't Go Near The Water (Surf's Up Original Album)
- B2: Long Promised Road
- B3: Take A Load Off Your Feet
- B4: Disney Girls
- B5: Student Demonstration Time
- B6: Feel Flows
- B7: Lookin' At Tomorrow (A Welfare Song) (A Welfare Song)
- B8: A Day In The Life Of A Tree
- B9: Til I Die
- B10: Surf's Up
- B11: Surf's Up Promo (Previously Unreleased)
- B12: Take A Load Off Your Feet (Live 1993 - Previously Unreleased - Surf's Up Live)
- B13: Long Promised Road (Live 1972 - Previously Unreleased)
- B14: Disney Girls (Live 1982 - Previously Unreleased)
- B15: Surf's Up (Live 1973 - Previously Unreleased)
- B16: Student Demonstration Time (Live 1971 - Previously Unreleased)
- B17: Big Sur (Previously Unreleased - Bonus Track - Surf's Up Bonus Tracks)
- B18: Help Is On The Way
- B19: Sweet & Bitter (Previously Unreleased - Bonus Track)
- B20: My Solution (Previously Unreleased - Bonus Track)
- B21: 4Th Of July
- B22: Sound Of Free
- B23: Lady (Fallin' In Love) (Fallin' In Love)
- B24: Seasons In The Sun (Previously Unreleased - Bonus Track)
- C1: Sunflower Promo 2 (Previously Unreleased - Sunflower Sessions)
- A2: This Whole World
- C2: Slip On Through (Track & Backing Vocals - Previously Unreleased)
- C3: This Whole World (Long Version Track & Backing Vocals - Previously Unreleased)
- C4: Add Some Music To Your Day (Track & Backing Vocals - Previously Unreleased)
- C5: Deirdre (Track - Previously Unreleased)
- C6: It's About Time (Track & Backing Vocals - Previously Unreleased)
- C7: Tears In The Morning (Track & Backing Vocals - Previously Unreleased)
- C8: All I Wanna Do (Session Intro, Track & Backing Vocals - Previously Unreleased)
- C9: Forever (Session Highlights - Previously Unreleased)
- C10: Forever (Track & Backing Vocals - Previously Unreleased)
- C11: Our Sweet Love (Track & Backing Vocals - Previously Unreleased)
- C12: At My Window (Track & Backing Vocals - Previously Unreleased)
- C13: Cool Cool Water (Alternate 2019 Mix - Previously Unreleased)
- C14: San Miguel (Track & Backing Vocals - Previously Unreleased)
- C15: Loop De Loop (Track - Previously Unreleased)
- C16: Good Time (Session Intro, Track & Backing Vocals - Previously Unreleased)
- C17: When Girls Get Together (Track - Previously Unreleased)
- C18: Slip On Through (Alternate 1969 Mix With Session Intro - Previously Unreleased)
- C19: Our Sweet Love (String Section - Previously Unreleased)
- C20: San Miguel (Backing Vocals Excerpt - Previously Unreleased - 1969-1970 A Cappella)
- C21: Break Away (Backing Vocals Excerpt - Previously Unreleased)
- C22: Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song) (The Cotton Song)
- C23: Good Time (Backing Vocals Excerpt - Previously Unreleased)
- C24: This Whole World (Backing Vocals Section - Previously Unreleased)
- C25: Add Some Music To Your Day (A Cappella - Previously Unreleased)
- C26: Got To Know The Woman (A Cappella - Previously Unreleased)
- C27: It's About Time (Backing Vocals Excerpt - Previously Unreleased)
- A3: Add Some Music To Your Day
- C28: All I Wanna Do (A Cappella - Previously Unreleased)
- C29: Forever
- D1: Don't Go Near The Water (Track & Backing Vocals - Previously Unreleased - Surf's Up Sessions)
- D2: Long Promised Road (Track & Backing Vocals - Previously Unreleased)
- D3: Take A Load Off Your Feet (Alternate Vocal - Previously Unreleased)
- D4: Disney Girls (Track & Backing Vocals - Previously Unreleased)
- D5: Student Demonstration Time (Track & Backing Vocals - Previously Unreleased)
- D6: Feel Flows (Track & Backing Vocals - Previously Unreleased)
- D7: Lookin' At Tomorrow (A Welfare Song) (A Welfare Song)
- D8: A Day In The Life Of A Tree (Track & Backing Vocals - Previously Unreleased)
- D9: Til I Die (Long Version With Alternate Lyrics - Previously Unreleased)
- D10: Surf's Up
- D11: (Wouldn't It Be Nice To) Live Again (Wouldn't It Be Nice To)
- D12: Don't Go Near The Water (A Cappella - Previously Unreleased - Surf's Up A Cappella)
- D13: Long Promised Road (A Cappella - Previously Unreleased)
- D14: Feel Flows (Backing Vocals Excerpt - Previously Unreleased)
- D15: Disney Girls (Backing Vocals Excerpt - Previously Unreleased)
- D16: A Day In The Life Of A Tree (Backing Vocals Excerpt - Previously Unreleased)
- D17: Til I Die (A Cappella - Previously Unreleased)
- D18: Surf's Up (A Cappella - Previously Unreleased)
- D19: I Just Got My Pay
- D20: Walkin
- D21: When Girls Get Together
- D22: Baby Baby (Previously Unreleased - Bonus Track)
- D23: Awake (Previously Unreleased - Bonus Track)
- D24: It's A New Day (Previously Unreleased - Bonus Track)
- A4: Got To Know The Woman
- E1: This Whole World (Alternate Ending - Previously Unreleased)
- E2: Add Some Music To Your Day (Alternate Version - Previously Unreleased)
- E3: Don't Go Near The Water (Alternate Version - Previously Unreleased)
- E4: Surf's Up (Part 1 - 1971 Remake Track With 1966 Brian Vocal - Previously Unreleased)
- E5: Soulful Old Man Sunshine
- E6: I'm Goin' Your Way (Alternate Mix - Previously Unreleased)
- E7: Where Is She
- E8: Carnival (Over The Waves/Sobra Las Olas) (Over The Waves/Sobra Las Olas)
- E9: It's Natural (Previously Unreleased)
- E10: Medley: All Of My Love/Ecology (Previously Unreleased)
- E11: Before (Previously Unreleased)
- E12: Behold The Night (Previously Unreleased)
- E13: Old Movie (Cuddle Up) (Cuddle Up)
- E14: Hawaiian Dream (Previously Unreleased)
- E15: Settle Down/Sound Of Free (Basic Session Outtake - Previously Unreleased)
- E16: I've Got A Friend (Previously Unreleased)
- E17: Til I Die (Piano Demo - Previously Unreleased)
- E18: Back Home (Demo - Previously Unreleased)
- E19: Back Home (Alternate Version - Previously Unreleased)
- E20: Won't You Tell Me (Demo - Previously Unreleased)
- E21: Won't You Tell Me
- E22: Barbara
- E23: Slip On Through (Early Version Track - Previously Unreleased)
- E24: Susie Cincinnati (Basic Session Highlights - Previously Unreleased)
- E25: My Solution (Track & Backing Vocals - Previously Unreleased)
- E26: You Never Give Me Your Money (Previously Unreleased)
- A5: Deirdre
- E27: Medley: Happy Birthday, Brian/God Only Knows (Previously Unreleased)
- E28: You Need A Mess Of Help To Stand Alone (Track & Backing Vocals - Previously Unreleased)
- E29: Marcella (A Cappella - Previously Unreleased)
- A6: It's About Time
- A7: Tears In The Morning
- A8: All I Wanna Do
- A9: Forever
- A10: Our Sweet Love
- A11: At My Window
- A12: Cool, Cool Water
- A13: Sunflower Promo 1 (Previously Unreleased)
- A14: This Whole World (Live 1988 - Previously Unreleased - Sunflower Live)
- A15: Add Some Music To Your Day (Live 1993 - Previously Unreleased)
- A16: Susie Cincinnati (Live 1976 - Previously Unreleased)
- A17: Back Home (Live 1976 - Previously Unreleased)
- A18: It's About Time (Live 1971 - Previously Unreleased)
- A19: Riot In Cell Block 9 (Live 1970 - Previously Unreleased)
- A20: Break Away (Original 1969 Single Mix - Previously Unreleased - Bonus Track - Sunflower Bonus Tracks)
- A21: Celebrate The News
- A22: Loop De Loop
- A23: San Miguel
- A24: Susie Cincinnati
- A25: Good Time
- A26: Two Can Play
Suche:́71
Re-release Gegründet 1970 von Dieter Moebius und Hans-Joachim Roedelius zählen Cluster zu den einflussreichsten Bands der experimentellen Elektronik- und Ambientmusik in Deutschland. "Cluster 71" war das Debütalbum des Duos und zählt laut dem Musikmagazin "The Wire" zu den "One Hundred Records That Set The World On Fire". "Cluster 71" ist ein Monster: Das Album enthält gerade mal drei (unbetitelte) Stücke und ist schwere Kost für unvorbereitete Ohren. Doch das Album war wegweisend wie kaum ein zweites elektronisches Musikwerk. Cluster waren vorher noch ein Trio und schrieben sich Kluster. Aufgrund musikalischer Differenzen trennten sich Moebius und Roedelius 1970 von Konrad Schnitzler und spielten 1971 im Hamburger Star Musikstudio ihr erstes Album ein. Clusters völlige Abkehr von gebräuchlicher Harmonik und Rhythmik bis hin zu totaler klanglicher Abstraktion, ihr selbstverständlicher Umgang mit Geräuschen, rigorose elektronische Live-Improvisationen und das Bewusstsein, nichts verlieren zu können - das alles kennzeichnet diesen innovativen Aufbruch. Der Begleittext stammt von Asmus Tietchens.
With Magma, Faust was one of the most important of all the European groups of the 70's. Compiled from "lost" and unreleased material, originally released as "Munich & Elsewhere" on the 10th Anniversary of their disbandment (including prophetic pre-dub mixing) as well as most of the unreleased "Faust Party 3" LP. Intense, eccentric, hypnotic, a true timeless classic. Finally out as a double LP, 71 Minutes is the second in our series of reissues of Faust. 180 gram vinyl.
- “Bertha”
- “Me And My Uncle”
- “Mr. Charlie”
- “Loser”
- “Beat It On Down The Line”
- “Sugaree”
- “Jack Straw”
- “Next Time You See Me”
- “Tennessee Jed”
- “El Paso”
- “Big Railroad Blues”
- “Casey Jones”
- “Good Lovin’”
- “Brokedown Palace”
- “Playing In The Band”
- “Run Rudolph Run”
- “Deal”
- “Sugar Magnolia”
- “Comes A Time”
- “Truckin’”
- “Drums”
- “The Other One”
- “Sitting On Top Of The World”
- “The Other One, Pt. 2”
- “Not Fade Away, Pt. 1”
- “Goin’ Down Road Feeling Bad”
- “Not Fade Away, Pt. 2”
- “One More Saturday Night”
From the first show the Grateful Dead played in St. Louis in 1968 – when “St. Stephen” made its debut – local fans knew the Gateway City’s rich musical heritage had a unique way of coaxing the best out of the band. One of the shortest-lived iterations of the Grateful Dead was the band that existed December 1971 through March 1972. Jerry, Bob, Phil, Bill, Pigpen, and Keith formed a formidable version of the Dead that only played a few shows together before Donna Jean joined as vocalist, and before Pigpen would depart the stage for good in June 1972. What this sextet lacked in quantity of shows it made up for with creativeness, power, and inspiration.
When Pigpen re-joined the Dead on December 1, 1971, after a few months off during which Keith had joined as piano player, the band was now an unstoppably powerful live juggernaut it hadn't been since the height of the Primal Dead era in late 1968-1969. Widely considered one of the best shows from the Pigpen-Keith era of the Grateful Dead, December 10, 1971 in St. Louis has it all: Pigpen singing lead on four songs including an 18 minute version of Good Lovin' and a very rare performance of Run Rudolph Run; a deep dive into the Dead's psychedelic recent past with a monster version of The Other One; plus plenty of the new material from earlier in 1971 like Bertha, Loser, Sugaree, and Playing In The Band. They also hit upon much of the music that would appear the following year on Europe '72, such as Jack Straw, Tennessee Jed, Mr. Charlie, and One More Saturday Night. And no Dead show of this vintage would be complete without the "hits": Truckin', Sugar Magnolia, and Casey Jones all make appearances. This is truly one of the deepest, most dynamic, exciting, and accessible live shows in the entire Grateful Dead canon.
- 1: Califia (Stone Rider) - Featuring Suzi Jane Hokom
- 2: The Bed
- 3: Sleep In The Grass - Featuring Ann-Margret
- 4: Leather And Lace - Featuring Nina Lizell
- 5: If It's Monday Morning
- 6: The Night Before
- 7: Bye Babe
- 8: Victims Of The Night - Featuring Ann-Margret
- 1: Chico - Featuring Ann-Margret
- 2: Hey Cowboy - Featuring Nina Lizell
- 3: No Train To Stockholm
- 4: Won't You Tell Your Dreams
- 5: Nobody Like You - Featuring Suzi Jane Hokom
- 6: Trouble Maker
- 7: What's More I Don't Need Her
- 8: Come On Home To Me
- 9: I Just Learned To Run
Erster Release der Light In The Attic Re-Issue Serie zu Ehren von LEE HAZLEWOOD mit Stücken von so essentiellen Alben wie ,Cowboy In Sweden". Mit Duetts mit Suzi Jane Hokom, Ann Margret und Nina Lizell. Extensive Linernotes und bisher ungesehene Photos. Mit seinem Schnurrbart und dem klingenden Bariton war LEE HAZLEWOOD einer der Stars der späten 60er Jahre. Obwohl er wahrscheinlich am bekanntesten wegen seiner Arbeit mit NANCY SINATRA ist (er schrieb ihren Megahit ,These Boots Are Made For Walking"), leistete HAZLEWOOD auch fernab dieser besonderen Glamourkönigin beachtliche Arbeit und fand später große Fans in BECK, SONIC YOUTH und JARVIS COCKER. Für den Record Store Day 2012 präsentiert Light In The Attic den Startpunkt einer Anthologie mit ,Singles, Nudes&Backsides", die LEEs beste Solosongs und Duetts seines Lee Hazlewood Industries Sublabels (LHI) versammelt. Die Serie wird sich Material von LHI widmen (das hier zum ersten Mal von den analogen Originaltapes neu gemastert wurde), zusammen mit LEEs Output bei anderen Labels, Raritäten, unveröffentlichten Schätzen und den Filmen von Torbjörn Axelman. Man muss nur das Cover anschauen: umringt von nackten Mädchen, die alle einen unechten Schnurrbart tragen, spielt HAZLEWOOD im Anzug leicht unsouverän den Playboy. Exakt wie dieses Photo zeigen auch die Songs einen gespaltenen Mann: er ist der zärtliche Romantiker, der gebrochene Loser und der zerfurchte Cowboy zugleich.
- A1: P Lion - Happy Children
- A2: Duke Lake - Do You
- A3: 50 & 50 Brothers - Red Man
- A4: Anthony's Games - Sunshine Love
- A5: Flexi Cowboys - Domination
- A6: Jimmy & Suzy - Come Back
- A7: Spy 71 - Take Me...mr Love
- A8: Koto - Dragon's Legend
- B1: Valerie Dore - The Night
- B2: Radiorama - Vampires
- B3: Brian Ice - Talking To The Night
- B4: Scotch - Pictures
- B5: One System - Life Is Very Short
- B6: Dario Diviacchi - Waiting For Heaven
- B7: Arm - Number One
- B8: Ken Laszlo - Hey Hey Guy
Der legendäre Italo Boot Mix ist zurück !!
ZYX Italo Disco Boot Mix Vol. 1 knüpft an die großen Zeiten dieser Kult-Serie an. Zuerst gibt es die beiden Mixe als CD, einige Wochen später veröffentlichen wir die Boot-Mixe für alle Vinyl-Liebhaber als LP.
Auf Vol. 1 vertreten sind P. Lion, Duke Lake, Koto, Valerie Dore, Radiorama uvm.
· Album presentation live @ Camden Assembly London, 13th June
· Genre-spanning UK jazz artist who has worked with the likes of Craig Charles Fantasy Funk Band, Nightmares On Wax, The New Mastersounds, and Rae & Christian
· Follow-up to the debut and highly credited La Sombra from 2017
· Features guest UK trumpeter Matthew Halsall on 'The Mirage'
· La Sombra made Gilles Peterson's 'Best albums of 2017' list, with a track included on Brownswood Bubblers 12
· Part of the Matthew Halsall live band and toured with Dwight Trible
Recorded in Madrid in July 2017, Shamal Wind combines Chip Wickham's globetrotting, spiritual jazz expeditions with hard-won schoolings in the funk. Following his critically acclaimed 2017 debut, La Sombra, the record draws on spiritual jazz influences like Yusef Lateef and Sahib Shihab, and rests on Chip's many-sided experience as a musician, spanning left-field beat experiments to hard-hitting funk heavyweights.
After the Latin and flamenco whispers on La Sombra, Shamal Wind adds some Arab-influence percussion to the mix, most notably on the title track. Elsewhere, 'Barrio 71' sees him nodding to Shihab: high energy, lyrical and absorbing, with sax and the vibraphone taking the lead. 'Snake Eyes' taps into the meditative exaltations of modal jazz, while 'Soho Strut' nods to the jazz fusion, funk-influenced side of Chip's playing.
Like the Persian Gulf winds referenced in the album title, which often mark the shift to a new season, this album signals a new chapter for Chip, opening up a newfound energy and inclusiveness in his music, and further expanding on what he achieved in the past year. "Shamal Wind" is a heavy record, built on strong foundations.
Over the past 3 decades Chip Wickham has worked, written, recorded, and toured with the likes of Rae & Christian, Fingathing, The Pharcyde, Jimpster, Nightmares On Wax, Graham Massey, Roy Ayers, Nat Birchall, The New Mastersounds, Lack Of Afro, Craig Charles Fantasy Funk Band, Matthew Halsall, and Dwight Trible.
On "La Sombra":
"This is coming from the outside, I was like whooooa, easy. Blowing hard - they got it right! Gilles Peterson
"I'm becoming convinced that Chip Wickham is a genius" Craig Charles
"An impressive solo debut" London Evening Standard
"Majesterial and electrifying stuff" 9/10 Blues & Soul Magazine
"Tonally and melodically elegant and with a distinct 1960s/1970s vibe" Scotsman
- A1: Lee Marrow - Shanghai (Vocal Version)
- A2: Wish Key - Easy Way (Vocal)
- A3: Cyber People - Doctor Faustu's (Razzmatazz Version)
- A4: Radiorama - Aliens (Swedish Remix)
- B1: Spy 71 - Take Me ..Mr. Love (Vocal)
- B2: Koto - Visitors (Vocal Remix)
- B3: Tommy - One Night
- B4: Tom Spencer - Ferrari
- C1: Valerie Dore - Get Closer (Vocal Version)
- C2: Grant Miller - California Train
- C3: Art Fine - Dark Silence (Long Version)
- C4: The Fashion - Future Girl
- D1: Brian Ice - Talking To The Night (Swedish Remix)
- D2: Daryl Scott - I Need You Now (Vocal)
- D3: G P. Universe - Let Me Love You
- D4: Ken Laszlo - Hey Hey Guy (Us Remix)
- 1: The Knife, The Knife, The Knife
- 2: Bad Bite
- 3: Nickels And Diamonds
- 4: What You Feed
- 5: What You Starve
- 6: The Silence, The Silence, The Silence
- 7: Life And Debt
- 8: Lovers In Death
- 9: Nervous Passenger
- 10: The Storm, The Storm, The Storm
- 5: Nickels And Diamonds
- 6: Nervous Passenger
- 7: What You Feed
- 8: The Storm, The Storm, The Storm
- 9: What You Starve
- 10: The Silence, The Silence, The Silence
- 1: Talk To The Lord
- 2: Paint The Rain
- 3: The Gallows
- 4: Shine Your Light On Me
- 5: Your Love Is My Shelter
- 6: I Will Praise You
- 7: I'm Going Home
- 8: He Will Lift You Up Higher
- 9: Sweet Mary
- 10: Home At Last
- 11: You Make My World Go Round
- 12: Last Farewell
Release week Focus Track: Paint the Rain RELEASE TIMELINE 12/10 - TMR signs Natalie Bergman Announcement with video on Youtube: I Will Praise You (Live) 01/27 - Announce w/ PreSave/PreOrder IG1: Talk to the Lord + (music video) 02/24 - IG2: Shine Your Light On Me + (music video) 03/24 - IG3: I Will Praise You (album version) 04/21 - IG4: I’m Going Home Potential Video Asset - Live set of all the IG tracks released 05/05 - IG5 and Official Music Video: Paint the Rain 05/07 - STREET DATE w/ Focus Track: Paint the Rain Mercy is Natalie Bergman's debut, a self-produced solo album recorded in the strangest of times, during a personal period of profound sadness and reinvention. It's startling, and often beautiful — a rush to the edge of the cliff, with an unflinching look below Recorded at her brother's home studio in Los Angeles, CA, Bergman has already had a lengthy, successful career as one half of the brother-sister duo Wild Belle, but this is the first time she wrote and played all the material. This record absolutely pulses with redemptive power; it is replenishing and original, and deeply cathartic. And before we go any further, you should know that this is kind of a gospel record. It should also be said -- Natalie made this record because she absolutely had to. The music of Mercy began to germinate a few months after she lost her father in a wrong-way, head-on collision. He and her step-mother were killed by a drunk driver. Shortly after, Natalie visited a monastery in the southwestern desert, and there she began to embark on this album. "The first song I wrote on Mercy was 'Home At Last,'" she says. "It is the best song I have ever written. I sing a lot about home on this record. Believing in that place has been my greatest consolation. I had an urgency and desperation to know that my father was there. His sudden death was a whirling chaos that assaulted my mind. This album provided me with my only hope for coming back to life myself. Gospel music brings hope. It is the good news; it’s exemplary. It can bring you truth. It can keep you alive. These songs have kind of written themselves, and they rely on me to sing them.” Natalie Bergman made one of the first great albums of 2021.
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Zeb & Scotty without a doubt belong to the unsung heroes of the Jamaican-Caledonian underground, running tings during sound system nights all over Scotland in the 2010s – most notoriously for Mungo’s Hifi in Glasgow and Big Toe’s Hifi in Edinburgh. Wherever a heavy bass could be heard through wet nights, you could be sure the duo was tearing the place down inside.
Always getting the vibes best on a small stage next to a blasting rig, their vinyl releases remained scarce however. Luckily one of their magic moments, “Bring Di Sensi” on a Jahtari 8bit chip hop jam, was captured on tape in 2008 at the Glasgow School of Art during a Mungo’s Hifi session.
Now pressed to fine 7″ wax with an all new Dub cut on B and alongside beloved oddball reggae outro “Roll That Shit“, this heavyweight delivery is scheduled to arrive at all sound systems shortly!
"Every day, the skies of New York City fill up with unseen clouds of radio signals spreading over immigrant neighborhoods. These culturally charged clouds of radio energy burst with a flow of content that continually shifts and transforms, following the lifecycle and rhythm of the streets.
Since 1992, Robin Storey (founding member of the pioneering post-industrial band Zoviet*France) has been creating innovative and thought-provoking music under the Rapoon moniker. Drawing inspiration from his early days with Z*F, he continues to push the boundaries of ambient, industrial, and world music genres, earning him a dedicated following across the globe.
Originally available in 1994 as a limited-edition DAT tape through Staalplaat Records, Cidar was later included as a bonus CD in the reissue of another Rapoon classic, Fallen Gods. Now, after years of anticipation, fans can experience this mesmerizing work as a stand-alone release – remastered and expanded with three previously unreleased tracks from the original 1994 recording sessions.
Cidar showcases Robin’s signature sound – a seamless blend of Z*F-inspired drones and loops intertwined with vibrant African percussion and hauntingly beautiful Asian string instruments. This combination creates an immersive, trance-like atmosphere that transports listeners into a world of meditative sonic exploration.
With its enchanting rhythms and deeply textured layers, Cidar stands as a testament to Robin’s unparalleled ability to craft music that defies genre boundaries while remaining instantly recognizable. Fans of both Zoviet*France and Rapoon will find themselves drawn into the hypnotic sounds of this timeless masterpiece.
The standalone release of Cidar marks an important milestone in the history of experimental music, offering audiences worldwide the opportunity to rediscover or experience for the first time one of Robin Storey’s most influential works.
Re-Release auf schwarzem Vinyl
Some words from Nat about the music – “For this recording I composed some songs using more “exotic” (for want of a better word) modes,
which I have always meant to explore in more depth but never really got around to very much. The first song for instance, Red, Gold & Green, uses an Ethiopian scale.
The title comes from the colours of the Ethiopian flag, which is also symbolic in Rastafari so has a kind of double meaning, like a lot of my songs.The title track, Path of Enlightenment, uses several modes,
starting in a major key then moving to the Phrygian mode, then to a minor key. The piano solo is in a 28 bar minor blues form. Menat is based on a mode of the Byzantine scale,
I’m not sure if it has a particular name or not. Amenhotep was the name of several Egyptian pharaohs,
Amenhotep IV being the original given name of Akhenaten.When I was writing this song it put me in mind of my song, Akhenaten, simply because they are both in 5/4 time,
so I decided to give this one a pharaonic name too. Spheshile is a Zulu word (and sometimes name) that means “beautiful gift”, the title was suggested by a friend from South Africa.
All this means nothing of course if the music doesn’t tell a story, I think the unfamiliar modes allowed us to speak of interesting things that may not have come to us otherwise.
Finally, I chose to use the quartet format for this recording because it occurred to me that it tends to make for a more cohesive group sound, and it had been a while since we recorded this way.”



















