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Rejoice, all the albums Fela Kuti ever recorded are being re-issued by Knitting Factory records and let's face it you can't have enough Fela so to celebrate I play the whole 11 minutes of Water Get No Enemy one of my favourite Fela tracks. King Cannibal has finally released his album on Ninja Tune, a multi-genre specialist he revels in perverting accepted notions of genres and twisting them in his own image, usually taking them to darker realms - watch out for him, this is just the start. On another Afrobeat tip Jimi Tenor has teamed up with Tony Allen and they've brought out the best in each other, Allen reveling in the deeper Avant-Garde world of the maverick Tenor and the deeper jazz flavours - this album is the best of Tony Allens many projects this year.
Percussion master Trilok Gurtu is always doing something interesting and I'm particularly liking the Indian Middle Eastern fusion of Dive In. Lloyd Miller is an amazing jazz ethnologist and his constant experimentation with jazz and Eastern styles is being celebrated by a wonderfully selected Jazzman compilation. I had to drop another Reason or Romanza track from their forthcoming Civil Music EP, they really are that good and the same with Trus'me as I give you another taste of his new album on Fat City Records which segues perfectly into a slice of new old style house music courtesy of SE62. Boddhi Satva has given George Levin the remix he needed and turned his soulful vocal track The Better Life into an excellent slice of deep deep afrocentric house music.
A Mountain Of One are producing some great balearic prog/kraut rock cosmic mash up type of stuff and I'm particularly liking the Sky Is Folding from their recent album. To finish the show I had to drop a track from the latest Matthew Halsall album another great slice of modern jazz from this Manchester youngster who is punching well above his years with both his music and the fact he is self releasing his music on his own excellent Gondwana label which he is also using as a vehicle for some other excellent British players notably Nat Birchall and his amazing recent spiritual jazz album
Fela Kuti - Water No Get Enemy (Knitting Factory Records promo)
King Cannibal - Virgo feat Face-A-Face (Ninja Tune)
Jimi Tenor/Tony Allen - Ceila's Walk (Strut promo)
Trilok Gurtu - Dive In
Lloyd Miller - Hue Wail (Jazzman Records)
Reason or Romanza - Seven Uses Of Difference (Civil Music promo)
Trus'me - Pretend (Fat City promo)
SE62 - Wall Ride, Eddie C rmx (Home Taping Is Killing Music promo)
George Levin - The Better Life ft Clara Hill, Boddhi Satva Ancelstral Soul rmx (BBE promo)
A Mountain Of One - Sky Is Folding (
Matthew Halsall - Colour Yes (Gondwana promo)
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