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SPECIALITIES NEW RELEASES release date: 14th APRIL 2017

JOWEE OMICIL

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RELEASE DATE 14TH APRIL 2017

Let's Bash!

JOWEE OMICIL Born in Montreal to Haitian parents, multi instrumentalist-composer-educator-producer Jowee (pronounced “Joey”) Omicil brings a novel and distinctly Afro-Haitian perspective to his music. He’s part of a growing cadre of Caribbean-descended artists bringing new flavours to the creative music spectrum. One who possesses a distinctive, soulful and spiritual sound on saxophones and flutes that extends to his clarinet and harmonica ventures. Jowee recorded Let's Bash! - his first ‘international’ album release - in the south of France alongside a dozen fellow militants of groove, during a week when the full moon shone above.

Jowee infuses his music with the freedom of jazz, the spirituality of gospel, and an aural universe of soul-shaking grooves. Music which speaks to body and mind, in which melodic storytelling is essential, his Creole roots blending with gospel, soul, hip hop culture and world folklore, while paying homage to his jazz forefathers from Charlie Parker to Ornette Coleman to Wayne Shorter. As for Let’s Bash!, it is at once a battle cry and a declaration of love which conceals a fine profession of faith : I want jazz to be popular again.

Label: Jazz Village File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: JV570120 Barcode: 3149027007221 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Jowee Omicil - soprano sax, voice, clarinet, alto sax, cornet, piccolo flute, Rhodes Michel Alibo - electric bass, vocals Conti Bilong - drums Justwody Cereyon - electric & acoustic bass Jean-Philippe Dary - piano, Rhodes, bass, vocals, percussion Jeffrey Deen - percussion Nenad Gajin - guitar Jonathan Jurion - piano, Rhodes Kona Khasu - electric & acoustic bass Jendah Manga - electric bass Emmanuel Bertholo Tilo - drums

Track listing: 1. Let's Just Bash! 5:16 2. Twa Groove 5:07 3. Ballad For Roy Hargrove 7:07 4. Chaplin Bash! 4:11 5. Morais Spirit 4:02 6. One Note For Miles 11:38 7. Pipillita 3:44 8. Sur Le Pont d'Avignon 3:24 9. Asi Paré 4:11 10. Love & Honesty 7:29 11. Something Clear 5:13 12. Mellow On The SaxO 7:25

RELEASE DATE 14TH APRIL 2017

Let's Bash!

JOWEE OMICIL 180g VINYL DOUBLE LP IN GATEFOLD SLEEVE WITH DOWNLOAD CODE Born in Montreal to Haitian parents, multi instrumentalist-composer-educator-producer Jowee (pronounced “Joey”) Omicil brings a novel and distinctly Afro-Haitian perspective to his music. He’s part of a growing cadre of Caribbean-descended artists bringing new flavours to the creative music spectrum. One who possesses a distinctive, soulful and spiritual sound on saxophones and flutes that extends to his clarinet and harmonica ventures. Jowee recorded Let's Bash! - his first ‘international’ album release - in the south of France alongside a dozen fellow militants of groove, during a week when the full moon shone above.

Label: Jazz Village File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: JV33570120 Barcode: 3149027004473 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 2 LP Jowee Omicil - soprano sax, voice, clarinet, alto sax, cornet, piccolo flute, Rhodes Michel Alibo - electric bass, vocals Conti Bilong - drums Justwody Cereyon - electric & acoustic bass Jean-Philippe Dary - piano, Rhodes, bass, vocals, percussion Jeffrey Deen - percussion Nenad Gajin - guitar Jonathan Jurion - piano, Rhodes Kona Khasu - electric & acoustic bass Jendah Manga - electric bass Emmanuel Bertholo Tilo - drums

Jowee infuses his music with the freedom of jazz, the spirituality of gospel, and an aural universe of soul-shaking grooves. Music which speaks to body and mind, in which melodic storytelling is essential, his Creole roots blending with gospel, soul, hip hop culture and world folklore, while paying homage to his jazz forefathers from Charlie Parker to Ornette Coleman to Wayne Shorter. As for Let’s Bash!, it is at once a battle cry and a declaration of love which conceals a fine profession of faith : I want jazz to be popular again.

Track listing: SIDE ONE 1. Let's Just Bash! 5:16 2. Twa Groove 5:07 3. Ballad For Roy Hargrove 7:07 SIDE TWO 1. Chaplin Bash! 4:11 2. Morais Spirit 4:02 3. One Note For Miles 11:38 SIDE THREE 1. Pipillita 3:44 2. Sur Le Pont d'Avignon 3:24 3. Asi Paré 4:11 4. Love & Honesty 7:29 SIDE FOUR 1. Something Clear 5:13 2. Mellow On The SaxO 7:25

RELEASE DATE 14TH APRIL 2017

New Helsinki OLLI HIRVONEN Olli Hirvonen is a dynamic and virtuosic Finnish-born, New York-based guitarist. Winner of the Socar Montreux Jazz Electric Guitar competition in 2016 (the jury was presided over by John McLaughlin), Olli releases his second album, New Helsinki on Edition Records. New Helsinki is an album that promises to ignite the attention of the international media and fans worldwide with its deft infectious melodies, irresistibly bold grooves and intense inventive soloing. A musician with a big vision and a commanding spirit, Olli Hirvonen is a supremely gifted guitarist and composer. With New Helsinki, Hirvonen has thrown down his calling card and demonstrated the promise that will inevitably thrust his career and profile in an upward trajectory towards international acclaim.

Label: Edition Records File Under: Jazz Catalogue No: EDN1087 Barcode: 5060509790043 Price: LOWER FULL PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Olli Hirvonen - guitar Walter Smith III - tenor saxophone Adam O’Farrill - trumpet Luke Marantz - piano & rhodes Marty Kenney - bass Nathan Ellman-Bell - drums

Track listing: 1. Arps 4.08 2. Gravity 10.29 3. Invisible 11.47 4. Fundamental 6.12 5. N.E.B 4.09 6. Absolute 11.55 7. Lavola 6.50

RELEASE DATE 14TH APRIL 2017

S'habituer Ă l'obscuritĂŠ KRISMENN Some artists forge a path that is specifically, uniquely, their own, inhabiting a musical orbit untrodden by any before them.

Christophe Le Menn, aka Krismenn, is such an artist. Taking traditional Breton song and transmogrifying it through the media of hip-hop and electronics to present ancient culture as a contemporary force.

Krismenn travelled through Central Brittany in order to learn the Breton language and traditional singing from the elders.

This learning process led him to singing in the first Kreiz Breizh Akademi orchestra 'Norkst' and to following the teachings of Erik Marchand and various world music artists from Brittany, Albania and India. Explorer of rhythms and rhymes, Krismenn knows how to highlight the music of the Breton language in a modern and personal way of singing.

Originally performing solo with backing tapes and loops, or sometimes in duo with human beat-box phenomenon Alem, Krismenn's first international release sees him with a band for the first time - electronics alongside biniou (Breton bagpipes), shaking the aesthetics and traditions of Breton musical culture to the core.

Label: World Village File Under: World music / France Catalogue No: WVF479124 Barcode: 3149026013223 Price: FULL PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Krismenn - vocals, slide guitar, bass, ukulele, programming Alexis Bocher - cello, programming Nicolas Pougnand - programming Tangui Le Cras - biniou (Breton bagpipes) Etienne Grass - guitar Philippe Ollivier - bandoneon

Track listing: 1. Hent Ar C'hoad 2. Don't A Reont 'darre 3. Hunvreou Merglet 4. P-A-L 5. Lapoused Torret 6. Liv Mut 7. Leusk d'o'r An Didrouz 8. War Gein Ar Gaouenn 9. Doriou 10. 'N Om Gustumin Deus An Denvalijenn 11. Mouar

RELEASE DATE 14TH APRIL 2017

S'habituer à l'obscurité KRISMENN 180g VINYL LP WITH DOWNLOAD CODE Some artists forge a path that is specifically, uniquely, their own, inhabiting a musical orbit untrodden by any before them.

Christophe Le Menn, aka Krismenn, is such an artist. Taking traditional Breton song and transmogrifying it through the media of hip-hop and electronics to present ancient culture as a contemporary force.

Label: World Village File Under: World music / France Catalogue No: WVF33479124 Barcode: 3149026000872 Price: £9.98 Format: 1 LP Krismenn - vocals, slide guitar, bass, ukulele, programming Alexis Bocher - cello, programming Nicolas Pougnand - programming Tangui Le Cras - biniou (Breton bagpipes) Etienne Grass - guitar Philippe Ollivier - bandoneon

Krismenn travelled through Central Brittany in order to learn the Breton language and traditional singing from the elders.

This learning process led him to singing in the first Kreiz Breizh Akademi orchestra 'Norkst' and to following the teachings of Erik Marchand and various world music artists from Brittany, Albania and India. Explorer of rhythms and rhymes, Krismenn knows how to highlight the music of the Breton language in a modern and personal way of singing.

Originally performing solo with backing tapes and loops, or sometimes in duo with human beat-box phenomenon Alem, Krismenn's first international release sees him with a band for the first time - electronics alongside biniou (Breton bagpipes), shaking the aesthetics and traditions of Breton musical culture to the core.

Track listing: Side One 1. Hent Ar C'hoad 2. Don't A Reont 'darre 3. Hunvreou Merglet 4. P-A-L 5. Lapoused Torret 6. Liv Mut Side Two 1. Leusk d'o'r An Didrouz 2. War Gein Ar Gaouenn 3. Doriou 4. 'N Om Gustumin Deus An Denvalijenn 5. Mouar