Alfa Mist - Bring Backs - VINYL LP

I've been focused on who I am in my music, but now I'm exploring where I am,Inch Alfa Mist says. InchI'm asking how did I get here?InchThis is the journeying question that underpins Alfa's fifth album, Variables. Traversing luscious, big band swing, head-nodding boom-bap rhythms and yearning vocal melodies, the record is expansive, soulful and moving, in both body and spirit. On Variables, his second for ANTI-, Alfa achieves his most fully-realised, expressive musical work to date, coupling his keen ear for looping, memorably emotive piano melodies with intuitive grooves and a free-flowing jazz improvisation.Since the of his first full-length project Nocturne in 2015, Alfa has established himself as one of the UK's most focused, in-demand and distinct musical voices. He has worked with the likes of Jordan Rakei and Tom Misch. Artists look to him for his unique blend of intimate bedroom production and expansive jazz group orchestration, since Alfa is yet to be boxed into a specific genre. His music spans everything from hip-hop beat-making to producing for artists such as rapper Loyle Carner, composing neo-classical works for the London Contemporary Orchestra, and reworking tracks from composer Ólafur Arnalds and pioneering jazz tag Blue Note.   The return to live shows has been a welcome one for Alfa and his fans, resulting in an instantly sold-out run of debut US shows in 2022, as well as a headline gig at London's Barbican in 2021, and an expanded run of US shows slated for 2023. It is a balance between feeling and perfectionism that ultimately gives Alfa's music it's depth and capacity for repeated listening. It is also an ethos that has enabled his remarkable work-ethic to date. InchI've never been a 'one album every four years' artist - I want to put out new projects every year,Inch he says. InchMusic is an extension of my life; it is the practice of creatin

Alfa Mist is one of the driving forces behind a young and vibrant scene of UK musicians, who've taken on jazz as their musical narrative. On his latest album Bring Backs the producer, self-taught pianist and rapper takes us on a sonic trip back to his beat-making past on the streets of East London, through the depth and musicality he discovered composing and playing jazz. Following the of Bring Backs, London based producer, pianist, bandleader and MC Alfa Mist releases a new two track EP, Two For Mistake via ANTI-, on 10Inch vinyl. Recorded live at Alfa's studio session from London's renowned Metropolis Studios earlier in 2021, the EP includes 'Bumper Cars' - an extended live version of the Bring Backs album track 'Last Card' - and a cover of Freddie Hubbard's 1971 classic 'First Light'. The new EP arrives ahead of Alfa's upcoming tours, which include his debut US shows. The run will prove to be the first time fans will be able to hear tracks from Bring Backs and Two For Mistake in a live setting. Album Tracks 1. First Light 2. Bumper Cars

Coming out on July 1, Jazz Codes is Moor Mother's second and latest album for Anti- and a companion to her celebrated 2021 Black Encyclopedia of the Air. Jazz Codes uses free jazz as a starting point but the collection continues the recent turn in Moor Mother's multifaceted catalog toward more melody, more singing voices, more choruses, more complexity. In it's warm, densely layered course through jazz, blues, soul, hip-hop, and other Black classical traditions, Jazz Codes sets the ear blissfully adrift and unhitches the mind from habit. Through her work, Ayewa illuminates the principles of her multidisciplinary collaborative practice Black Quantum Futurism, a theoretical framework for perceiving and adjusting reality through art, writing, music, and performance, informed by historical Black ontologies.The songwriter, composer, vocalist, poet, and educator Camae Ayewa spent years organizing and performing in Philadelphia's underground music community before moving to Los Angeles to teach composition at the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music. She released her debut album as Moor Mother, Fetish Bones, in 2016, and has since put out an abundance of acclaimed music, both as a solo artist and in collaboration with other musicians who share her drive to dig up the untold. She has performed and recorded with the free jazz groups Irreversible Entanglements and the Art Ensemble of Chicago, and made records with billy woods, Mental Jewelry, and YATTA. Album Tracks 1. Umzansi (Feat Black Quantum Futurism Featuring Mary Lattimore) 2. April 7th (Feat Keir Neuringer) 3. Golden Lady (Feat Melanie Charles) 4. Joe McPhee Nation Time Intro (Feat Keir Neuringer) 5. Ode to Mary (Feat Orion Sun & Jason Moran) 6. Woody Shaw (Feat Melanie Charles) 7. Meditation Rag (Feat Aquiles Navarro & Alya Al Sultani) 8. So Sweet Amina (Feat Justma