Andrew Hill - Smoke StackOn his second Blue Note album Smoke Stack (1963), pianist and composer Andrew Hill used an unusual line up of two bassists (Richard Davis and Eddie Khan) along with the masterful Roy Haynes on drums. Blue Note founder Alfred Lion considered Hill to have as distinct and important a compositional voice as Thelonious Monk, and the seven Hill compositions that the quartet explore here contain all the rare beauty to be found in his music. Designer Reid

often likened to a Jamaican Wilson Pickett

" with a mesmerizing Zoetrope pressing

Mobilised by ultracolour and inframusic

For McCoy is an essential release for anyone following the enchanted and unique path being forged by Eiko Ishibashi

it’s also about having to accept and respect the nuances that make us all different and discovering that all of our stories share the same truth

The first four Spiritualized records are the sound of J Spaceman finding his way through the cosmos

Many moments on the album reach what Coltrane herself defined the term Turiya as: “A state of consciousness — the high state of Nirvana

its twinkling percussion and languid horns slowly build the vibe before head-nod drums and a killer bassline enter the fray

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They even broke out the Crumar DS-2

sweeping the DIY minded Low Anthem along with it

The follow-up to their critically acclaimed debut album