Far Out Recordings
Nicola Conte - Umoja
Regular price $39.00 Save $-39.00Product Description
-
Having
released
music
with
Blue
Note,
Impulse!
and
Schema
records,
Nicola
Conte's
relationship
with
Far
Out
began
over
a
shared
love
of
hard-edged
bossanova
and
swinging
samba-jazz.
Between
2009-2013
Nicola
Conte
compiled
five
volumes
of
forgotten
60s
Brazilian
music
for
his
Viagem
series.
He
then
released
his
critically
acclaimed
Natural
album:
a
collaboration
with
vocalist
Steffania
Dippiero,
featuring
jazz
standards
alongside
covers
of
lesser
known
Brazilian
gems.
The
music
of
Umoja
draws
on
the
deep-dug
70's
independent
spiritual
and
free
jazz
sounds,
private-press
soul
records,
and
African
and
Afro
Caribbean
rhythms
in
Conte's
collection.
But
he
equally
recognises
his
debt
to
many
of
the
decade's
more
celebrated
musical
icons,
such
as
North
American
cosmic
jazz
masters
Lonnie
Liston
Smith
and
Gary
Bartz,
and
Afrobeat
originators
Fela
Kuti
and
Tony
Allen.
LP
Tracks:
1.
Freedom
&
Progress
2.
Arise
3.
Soul
Of
The
People
4.
Heritage
5.
Flying
Circles
6.
Umoja
Unity
7.
Life
Forces
8.
Dance
Of
Love
&
Peace
Part
1
9.
Dance
Of
Love
&
Peace
Part
2
10.
Into
The
Light
Of
Love
Read More