Full Moon Ensemble Featuring Claude Delcloo ‎- Crowded With Loneliness

Year : 2013/1970
Label : Superfly Records/CBS
Serie : ATK
Genre : Jazz
Style : Free Jazz, Modal

Best known as the backing band of Archie Shepp during his live performance at Juan Les Pins Jazz Festival in 1970, "Full moon Ensemble" was formed by guitarist Joseph Déjean & drummer Claude Delcloo, the both main composers of the group. Claude Delcloo is also known as the founder of BYG Records & "Actuel", an iconic magazine, leader of counterculture in the late sixties in France. Deeply influenced by John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders and the beat generation, the collective performed protest music including Free Jazz based on esoteric poetry from american poet Bob Kaufman. Titles include "Samba Miaou", a part of the "Tribute To Bob Kaufman" suite, selected  by JAZZMAN RECORDS for the "Spiritual Jazz Series Vol.3" compilation and by Digger's Digest for "Mobilisation Générale" compilation, released by french independant label, Born Bad Records.

Voices Of Darkness - Voices Of Darkness

Year : 2014/1974
Label : Superfly Records/Afrodisia
Genre : Soul
Style : Afrobeat, Funk/Soul

Some voices of Afro-Soul with a lot of James Brown's Funk expressions, by a cameroonian afrobeat combo based in Lagos, Nigeria, returned to the light thanks to the DJ Voodoo Funk. Spotted thanks to their live performance in nightclubs, "Voices Of Darkness" was born in 1972 at Douala, in the middle of Nigerian highlife era, formed around frontman Joe Brown (organ, guitar, lead vocal), Cel Anderson (bass, vocals), Emmanuel Ebot (congas, timbales, vocals), Paul Mony (drums) and later will be joined by nigerians Denise Kenneth (saxophone, percussions) & Emmanuel Ovo (trumpet, congas). Titles include only original songs composed by the group, all tracks written in english except "Bonjour Cherie" recorded in the french tongue.  

Various - Nippon Girls 2 : Japanese Pop-Beat & Rock'N'Roll 1966-70

Year : 2014
Label : Big Beat Records
Serie : Big Beat International 
Genre : Pop, Rock, Latin
Style : Bossa Nova, Psychedelic, Beat

The compilation of the japanese pop generation compiled by DJ Sheila Burgel including Bossa Nova, Rock 'N Roll, pop ballads & psychedelic music. "Nippon Girls 2" brings together twelve incredible songs, recorded between 1966-1970 by various queens of the Japanese Pop featuring Linda Yamamoto, including iconic songs "Mini Mini Girl" & "Sake Na Machi" (both selected by Yasuharu Konishi from Pizzicato Five for his "Good Night Tokyo" compilation released in 2000), the hit song "You Don't Know Baby" by english-speaker Emmy Jackson, the furious psychedelic rock "Watashi Ga Kemeko Yo" & the Bossa, "Warui Kuse". 

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SIDE A : Kayoko Ishu - Bazazz No.1 / Reiko Mari - Saike Na Machi (Psychedelic Town) / Linda Yamamoto - Furi Furi 5 / Mari Henmi - Daniel Mon Amour / Chiyo Okumura - Koi Gurui (Crazy Love) / Emy Jackson &  Blue Comets - Namida No Go Go (You Don't Know Baby)

SIDE B : Katsuko Kanai - Mini Mini Girl / Akiko Wada - Boy & Girl / Kemeko Matsudaira - Watashi Ga Kemeko Yo / Akiko Nakamura - Namida No Mori No Monogatari / The Peanuts - Tokyo No Hito / Kazumi Yasui - Warui Kuse

The Seatbelts by Be Hard Bop - See You Space Cowboy...

Compilation bringing together some of the best original jazz tunes recorded by japanese pianist Yoko Kanno & The Seatbelts for the "Cowboy Bebop" animated serie & movie "Knockin' On Heaven's Door", both directed by Shin'ichirō Watanabe. All tracks are composed & arranged by Yoko Kanno between 1998-2001, including New York recordings sessions with pianist Mark Soskin and some members of Brooklyn Funk Essentials, recorded & mixed by Rudy Van Gelder at RVG studio, New Jersey. Compiled & mixed by Be Hard Bop.

New Stream In Jazz Vol. 2 ~ Bossa Nova & Jazz Samba In Japan

Compilation series dedicated to the golden era of the japanese jazz scene through the years 60's-70's. This volume includes a collection of twenty one instrumentals and funny scat songs from Bossa Nova to Jazz Samba styles, performed by the main actors of the iconic japanese Latin music boom that occurred during the sixties and featuring Sadao Watanabe, Hiroshi Matsumoto, Masami Kawahara, Hiroshi Okazaki or Shungo Sawada. All tracks recorded between 1967-1974, compiled & mixed by Be Hard Bop.

Nippon Jazz Meets The Beatles

Following "A Day In The Life" mixtape, this volume is dedicated to the classics of The Beatles performed in jazz by iconic japanese Big Band & All-Stars Jazz musicians featuring Sadao Watanabe, Norio Maeda, Akira Ishikawa, Hiroshi Suzuki, Jiro Inagaki, Nobuo Hara, Takehiro Honda and others, including Soul Jazz, Hard Bop, Bossa Nova, Modal & Jazz Rock styles. All tracks recorded between 1967-1971, compiled & mixed by Be Hard Bop.

New Stream In Jazz

First volume introducing the compilation series dedicated to the golden era of Japanese Jazz scene through the years 60-70's. Titles include various Japanese rare groove from Soul Jazz to Hard Bop recorded by some of Japanese Jazz Giants and released under famous J-Jazz labels such as iconic Takt Jazz Series, TBM or Toshiba Pro Use Series. All tracks recorded between 1967-1975, compiled & mixed by Be Hard Bop.

Takeshi Inomata - Drum Shot

Year : 1968
Label : Nippon Columbia
Serie : Takt Jazz Series
Genre : Jazz
Style : Hard Bop, Modal

Recorded in the late 1967, the modern jazz album, "Drum Shot" of Takeshi "Mr. Drum" Inomata was produced & arranged by Norio Maeda (p), featuring jazz legend Konosuke Saijo (ts), Sadanori Nakamure (eg) from the West Liners, Tatsuro Takimoto (b) from Norio Maeda Trio and Hiroshi Suzuki (tb) in addition. In "Drum Shot", all structures of jazz drums are explored, passing by a variety of rhythms including free expressions and insane syncopated beats, in particular on the two drum sessions "Drum Shot" & "Hole Out". Titles include also the Maeda-Inomata duo "Birdie", "Singing On A Cab", "Unlucky Seven" & the soul jazz track "Go Go A Go Go" feat. Hiroshi Suzuki composed by Maeda. All tracks arranged by Norio Maeda.

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The Cast Five - Popsound N. 1

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Year : 2014/1971

Label : Sonor Music Editions/Flirt Records
Genre : Jazz, Stage&Screen
Style : Jazz Rock, Soul Jazz, Psychedelic

Out of the darkness thanks to the "Speedball Experience" released in the mid 90's, compilation of obscure pop jazz songs extracted from early 70's italian music library, including "Diatomea" & "Gospel 71". Originally first released on "Flirt" records in 1971, "Popsound N. 1" was finally reissued by the Sonor Music Editions, a label dedicated to the italian library music. It includes psychedelic grooves (Quadrante, Diatomea, Esse 4), Soul Jazz expressions (Rifrazione, Conker) and Heavy Funk sounds (Pacific 2000, Gospel 71). All tracks are performed by a trio of italian composers called "The Cast Five" formed by Ernesto Nicelli, Stellio Subelli & Pasquale Castiglione.

Brother Jack McDuff - Moon Rappin'

Year : 1970
Label : Blue Note
Genre : Jazz
Style : Soul Jazz, Jazz Funk

Recorded in four days in New York, december 1969, "Moon Rappin" is a typical Soul Jazz-Funk album of its time, featuring Richard Davis, Joe Dukes and the voice of Soul/Jazz songstress Jean DuShon. "Moon Rappin" explores the space soundscapes including reverb effects, straight-ahead jazz codes, bluesy inspirations. An iconic album sampled many times by various Hip-Hop artists such as A Tribe Called Quest on "Scenario" (The Low End Theory - 1991), which contains a sample of "Oblighetto", or more recently the eponymous track by the Hip-Hop collective from Brooklyn "Pro Era" on "Vinyls" (P.E.E.P: The aPROcalypse - 2012). All tracks produced & arranged by Brother Jack McDuff.

MUSICIANS : Brother Jack McDuff - organ - Bill Phillips - tenor saxophone, flute - Richard Davis - bass - Jerry Byrd - guitar - Joe Dukes - drums - Jean DuShon - vocal

Arawak ‎– Accadde A.......

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Year : 2017/1970
Label : Golden Pavilion Records/Squirrel records
Genre : Jazz, Stage&Screen
Style : Jazz Funk, Easy Listening, Smooth Jazz

Reissue of rare italian music library record by the portuguese label, Golden Pavilion Records, also in charge of the beautiful Stefano Torossi's "Feelings" album reissue. "Arawak" is one of the most famous pseudonym for Luciano Simoncini, an italian pianist, composer, arranger and conductor of various film scores, background music in radio and TV programs. "Accadde A...." is a jazz fusion album including Funk/Soul accents associated to folk music according to the localities Luciano visits. Recorded all over the world, he invites us to a sound journey passing by Bali, Lima or Belfast. "Accadde A Bali" was sampled by Madlib on "Real Eyes" for his Quasimoto project, "The Unseen" album released in 2000.