Moondog
The Viking Of Sixth Avenue

Emerging from their “Funk Church” jam sessions in 2017 at Seattle’s legendary Royal Room jazz club and premieres on KEXP, High Pulp steps onto the world stage. The forthcoming three volumes of ‘Mutual Attraction’ will showcase the octet’s psychedelic fusion of hip-hop, jazz, funk and soul. Volume 1 starts things off on a spiritual jazz journey via covers of three music icons: Pharoahe Sanders, Sun Ra, and Alice Coltrane. It’s an inspired take on ‘60s and ‘70s improvisational music and throughout, High Pulp displays unique skill, poise, and top-class musicianship that goes far beyond their short few years together.

Seance Centre: ...Muldrew, recorded on the northern Ontario lake by that name, is the culmination of several years of this collaborative tradition. Resisting their penchant for composition and arrangement, the duo embarked on this project with only an open framework that encouraged restraint. The result is a sparse and improvisational album, hung on enough structure for each song to evoke a distinct, albeit ambiguous mood. Space is paramount and even the most digital elements breathe with the resonance of the room and mingle with creaking floors. The resulting album is steeped in the placid stillness and northern ambience of a lake at dawn, and the emotive expanse of a forest at dusk. Imagine an ECM cottage-series, or Jon Hassell, Hiroshi Yoshimura, and John Martyn scoring a Bela Tarr film set in rural Canada. This is the future-proof music of metropolitan polyglot minds invigorated by nature’s mute refusal to follow a click-track.

By popular demand, the beloved 2017 label debut from saxophonist/singer/composer, Braxton Cook, is now available on vinyl for the first time anywhere, courtesy of Fresh Selects. The record comes in your choice of either a limited edition clear, see-through vinyl or the standard black LP. Both colorways come in a custom album jacket with a die-cut silhouette cover, giving you the choice of either a black or salmon colored background on a reversible insert, plus a printed Euro-sleeve with photos from the album’s recording sessions, with the original album mixes now remastered specifically for vinyl.

Seance Centre: ...INCANTATIONS is a collection of sixteen visual and sonic experiments centred around the idea of score as spell, curated and produced by Séance Centre’s Brandon Hocura and Naomi Okabe.A spell and its incantation are distinct, but conjoined by a symbolic, almost umbilical force. A spell is a totem text, a material call for change — a seed, a recipe, an instruction, a potential. The incantation of a spell gives it life, brings breath to body, raises hairs, moves minds. For this project, eight spell-scores were created by visual/text-based artists for a musician/composer to incant. Taking a wide interpretation of what can be considered a score, these works include concrete poetry, collage, painting, drawing, spell-poetry, instructional art, and recipe. The resulting sound works give voice to these evocative “texts”, residing in the liminal space between musical form and magical utterance.