FAO Kev n Karl

Thanks Jamie. I've sampled some tracks from that Madlib record & never got around to listening to it fully. Not even heard of Arun Ghosh before but I shall investigate.

Have you heard Yusef Lateef's Detroit: Latitude 42° 30' Longitude 83° record from the end of the 60s? I discovered it last year & its an incredible jazz-funk record that incorporates a big band sound at times & somehow works perfectly.

I may have well heard that Yusef Lateef record sometime in the distant past. I've definitely heard him before, but couldn't tell you which records. I'm downloading now. Cheers.

Nice one mate, I am familiar with the Madlib blue note stuff, he's done tonnes of stuff in a similar spirir, check out the Beat Kondukta, RockKondukta and Medicine Show series he has done consistently over the years (there are fucking volumes and volumes of it..) Where he will recorded albums using only 70's soul samples, or Brazilian Tropicalia samples, Afrobeat or 70's Rock samples etc.. There's loads of it. There is apparently an unreleased album using only Prince samples that he made on the day Prince died.

See he's going to be DJing at XOYO in a few weeks, but its going to be one of those nights that run till 6am with about 10 DJ's, I can't stomach that anymore..

I'll check out your other recommendations though.

Also, Stones Throw have a young producer called Knowledge (often styled as Knxwledge) who's very much inspired by the Madlib/Dilla crate digging mash up hip-hop producers, he made a record with Anderson Paak that I loved last year, he has a few instrumental albums in a similar vein to what Madlib does, worth a listen.

While we're at it, i'm having a bit of an Alice Coltrane binge at the moment and both her 'Ptah The El Daoud' and 'World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda' are stunning.

That last record was released earlier this year. It's a compilation of devotional recordings from an Ashram in the 80s and 90s. Sounds horrendous, but is honestly mind blowing.

Cheers Kev. Plenty there to be investigating.

Nice, I need to get into a bit more of her stuff, I've only heard 'Journey in Satchidananda', which I do really like. Keep meaning to try some more. I find with Jazz stuff, I prefer picking it up on vinyl and trying it that way. Jazz isn't a 'listening on Spotify on the bus' type of music for me, I need to sit back and soak it in.

Haha, I've seen that new album of hers get some good reviews, but it just sounds so wanky, it keeps putting me off!

Honestly mate- if all Ashrams were like that I would now be a devotee wearing robes and shit.

It's so good.

I love Jazz on vinyl. In fact, I think Jazz/Soul/Reggae etc. all lend themselves to vinyl more than most rock music etc.

but I've been on a record buying break due to saving money to move.

Alice C with Pharoah Sanders Journey in Satchidananda is a great record. I actually prefer that one to Universal Consciousness. Other than that I've not heard any more of her stuff so I'll add those to the list.

On the subject, did you ever hear Matthew Halsall & The Gondwana Orchestra's When the World Was One? Came out 3 or 4 years ago, the best modern spiritual jazz I've heard outside of Kamasi.