Sound Riot – Brown Paper Bag (Roni Size Cover)

 

Ohhh YEASH, check this superslick cover version of the classic Roni Size track “Brown Paper Bag” from the album “New Forms” from 1997, the band doing the cover is called Sound Riot and is coming from the middle part of Sweden in the city of Östersund,  this lads are pretty stoked on just dnb music with some jazzy influenses.

Jimmy Juliano And The Fluorescents

I often get music to my emailaccount, some of it i don´t like, some of it i do like and now i found out that there is even music that i have to make a blogpost out of just because its just to odd and strange. I really love people that just don´t follows the standard musical frames, like Jimmy Juliano And The Fluorescents, im guessing the man behind it is some kind of genius  because you have to have brains to make this kind of music (if it´s even called music), i even got a album sent to me THANKS!!

You have to klick HERE and listen, don´t forget to give this man one big HIGHFIVE!

Mozdzer, Danielsson, Fresco

Sorry for the lack of post the last month but i´ve been pretty much out of order with a bad knee, but hey everythings about to get better with a successful surgery from the best doctor in Scandinavia and springtime on the rise you can´t feel down!

In the past month i´ve been listening to loads and loads of new music though and one of the albums that been on repeat is Mozdzer, Danielsson & Fresco´s “Between Us And The Light”

This trio consists the most superb polish piano player Leszek Mozdzer accompanied by Swedish bass player Lars Danielsson and the Israeli percussion player – Zohar Fresco, have created something of a Dream Team Trio. This Dream Team sounds like a dream indeed – lightly, dynamically, with the touch of reflection at times. And as in a good poetry – imagination does not argue with discipline, and the visualization comes along with intellectualism.

PLEASE BUY THIS ALBUM!!

Mozdzer, Danielsson & Fresco – Abraham´s Bells from the album “Between Us And The Light”

Mozdzer, Danielsson & Fresco – Light Up The Lie from the album “Between Us And The Light”

Check out the cover they made on Nirvanas “Smells Like Teen Spirit” HERE

The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble

While we still are into to it, check out the latest EP from The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble called “Mutations” , seriously, how good can music really get??

In this amazing video we hear the song “Shadows”.

The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation

A companion “group” to Jason Köhnen and Giedon Kiers The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble wich i blogged about a couple of weeks ago, The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation is the antithesis of the jazz ensemble concept. Wreathed in subterranean drones and undulating tone waves, The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation is the sort of lounge act one would find playing in the lower circles of Hell, down were time dilates to infinity and every action takes epochs to complete.  It is deep, cold, dark, and suffocating. It is to a radio friendly pop song as glacial drift is to rapid climatic change.

This infected satanic jazz madness is released on the Berlin based label Ad Noiseam.

The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation – One from the album “Doomjazz Future Corpses”

The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation - Three from the album “Doomjazz Future Corpses”

The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation - Four from the album “Doomjazz Future Corpses”

The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation - Seven from the album “Doomjazz Future Corpses”

Alif Tree

This French music alchemist is a self-pronounced DJ and cook, who sings, writes, plays guitars, pianos, percs and scratch samples, then records, mixes, remixes again and again and often speaks to himself as a fervent defender of acoustic sounds, from philharmonic music to pop via smoky nu-jazz, blues, melancholy emotions, that combine simple acoustic jazz elements with spacious, multi-dimensional, synthesized ambience and very mellow beats to world music. 

Alif Tree has navigated through the universe or recording-studios, sound-stages and television, as much as record-labels, for the past fifteen years. Sailing the seven seas of space in zero gravity, between trip-hop under classical influence, instrumental hip-hop and jazzy electronica.

Alif is today signed to the Munich based record label Compost, established by Michael Reinboth in 1994. In the words of the inimitable Gilles Peterson Compost is “the most consistent and forward thinking record label of continental Europe.

Alif Tree – Aurevoir from the album “Clockwork”

Alif Tree – Mai  from the album “Clockwork”

Alif Tree – Forgotten Places from the album “French Cuisine”

Alif Tree – Deadly Species from the album “French Cuisine”

Alif Tree – Duo Impropable from the album “Spaced”

Alif Tree – Hold Me Down from the album “Spaced”

Hauschka

Hauschka, the alias of Volker Bertelmann, is based in Düsseldorf, his fourth full length album is called “Ferndorf”. This pianist and composer explores every chamber instrument in its full capacity. On Ferndorf (translating into ‘remote village’ from German), Hauschka brings in two cellists, violinist and even a trombone player to construct modern classical pieces that are pleasant on the ear and the soul.

Five out of twelve tracks appear to be “purely improvised”, yet elicit strong musicianship from the participating players. Alluding to his birthplace in rural Germany, the trip along the memory lane, is an upbeat skip and hop. Here, Bertelmann revisits his childhood influences contributing to his decade long affair with the piano. Where most major-chord filled pieces usually fill me with a post-neo-classical dread of scale walking, Hauschka keeps restraint and tends to concentrate on execution and message of each individual piece. Of course, no such trip ever occurs without a touch of melancholy. Please check out Fat Cat Records where Bertelmann releases his music on, so much interesting music on that label.

Hauschka – Schönes Mädchen from the album “Ferndorf”

Hauschka – Heimat from the album “Ferndorf”

Hauschka – Nadelwald from the album “Ferndorf”

Hauschka – Neuschnee from the album “Ferndorf”

Tipsy

Brought together by their shared fascination for experimental music and noise, the San Francisco-based lounge-collage duo Tipsy consists of Tim Digulla and David Gardner. Previously, Gardner. It’s been a while since we had the last release from this experimental lounge-funk progenitors, but here they are with the album called “Buzzz”, making a return on Ipecac with sixteen new excursions into jazzy exotica and avant-garde assaults on easy listening.

Tim and David is calling their own music for “drunktronica,” explaining the seven-year layoff between this and their previous release by saying they were “distracted by commercial corporate money music for hire (as well as occasional substance abuse),”.  

Tipsy – Midnight Party from the album “Buzzz”

Tipsy – Kitty´s Daydream from the album “Buzzz”

Tipsy – Kadonka from the album “Buzzz”

Tipsy – Big Business from the album “Buzzz”

Tipsy – See The Beauty, Touch The Magic from the album “Buzzz”

Indigo Jam Unit

It´s getting really hot and jazzy in here at Othersided, BUT in recent times so much good music in this genre has appeared! Let me introduce you all to Indigo Jam Unit wich easily is one of the hardest hitting combos on the Japanese scene in recent years! Their last album “Pirates” is a complete killer, the tunes are really heavy on acoustic bass played in loud, bold lines alongside piano, bass, drums, and added percussion. All recorded with a really full sort of feel, in joyously searching grooves that owe a lot to soul and modal jazz of the 60s and 70s! There’s a stripped-down quality to the album that’s really appealing, a focus on the core elements and rhythmic moments, making this record a delight for groovehounds, although it’s also got a strong jazz component too. Check out recordlabel Basis where this album is released on and go out and buy the record NOW!!

Indigo Jam Unit – Trailer from the album “Pirates”

Indigo Jam Unit – Pirates from the album “Pirates”

Indigo Jam Unit – Arctic Circle from the album “Pirates”

Indigo Jam Unit – Raindrop from the album “Pirates”

Two Banks Of Four

Two Banks Of Four actually only consist of two people; producers Robert Gallagher a.k.a Early Zinger and Dilip Harris a.k.a Demus, one thing you can say about Two Banks of Four is that these are some old school cats, fo’sho’. Jazzin’ out of London, UK, Two Banks of Four capture the nu-jazz sound to a perfection, making it easy for groups like Four Tet and Herbert to remix their songs. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if these guys’ samples blew up in the jazzy hip-hop scene. Beautiful backing vocals and flowin’ piano make their new LP, “Junkyard Gods”, definitely something to pick up. Take a walk with their basslines down to the record store and check ‘em out.

Releasing their music on the Berlin based independent record label Sonar Kollektiv that was founded by Berlin’s DJ and producer team Jazzanova in 1998.   

Two Banks Of Four – Queen Of Crows from the album “Junkyard Gods”

Two Banks Of Four – Dead Afternoon from the album “Junkyard Gods”

Two Banks Of Four – Wake Me 5:30 from the album “Junkyard Gods”

Two Banks Of Four – Ballad For Oliver Law from the album “Junkyard Gods”