Plunderphonia (Vinyl LP) Electronic

Plunderphonia (Vinyl LP) ElectronicOn this essential new collection of forward looking jazz reinterpretations, Kansas Smitty's bandleader Giacomo Smith delves deep into the catalogues of celebrated yet often overlooked artists that inspire his work with Kansas Smitty's; Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Beiderbeck, even Maurice Ravel. Created for the 'Plunderphonia' series for 7K!, itself a reinterpretation of the acclaimed ! K7 DJ Kicks series, the album owes as much to Giacomo's decade of

It sees him inhabiting a loose character that looks back at the last decade

"It is about pouring your love into something old to make it new again

Elvin Jones on drums

Steve Reich-ian piano phrasing

Sought after instrumentals for critically acclaimed album Sour Soul

Mulatu Astatke (Mojo magazine Top 50 of the year 2009

and tasty horn flourishes over the top

provides some guidance

a sort of second coming of '60s and '70s blues-rock

No Man's Land is an album dedicated to telling the fascinating stories of women whose incredible lives have all too often been overlooked by dint of their gender

mainly around the Grande-Terre district in the island's capital

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