Miles Spilsbury
Light Manoeuvres

L'ORAGE lead by the drummer Nelson Schaer comes up with Triangle a second album that raises the atmospheric pressure.Somewhere in the clouds, the music of L'Orage combines rhythms and polyrhythms with strong spiritual melodies. Ganesh Geymeier's lyricism is magnified by a creative and powerful rhythm section composed of Nelson Schaer and Fabien Iannone.Atmospheric melody and magnetic pulsation make for stunning music!Triangle is a 100% analog album recorded and mixed on a eight-track tape recorder.Nelson Schaer : Drums / Percussions / KeysGanesh Geymeier : Saxophone Tenor / Percussions / KeysFabien Iannone : Bass / Percussions / KeysRecorded and Mixed By Fabien Iannone at Alfalfa studioMastered by Nene Baratto at Big Snuff studioArtwork by Julian Montague

What an unbelievable record. From the wild cover to the iconic breakbeats, Roots from Ian Carr’s Nucleus is one of the dopest albums we know. This is seriously thick, funky-prog jazz-rock heaven. Originally released on Vertigo in 1973, other than a couple of versions at the time for other territories, Roots was never re-pressed since so it’s gone on to become another one of those impossible to find records. Maybe it was a little too out there for the time, but it’s aged very, very well indeed and this Be With re-issue, re-mastered from the original analogue tapes, shows off just why this deserves to be back in press. Genius trumpeter and visionary composer Ian Carr was one of the most respected British musicians of his era. He was a true pioneer and saw the potential in fusing the worlds of jazz with rock, just as Miles Davis and The Tony Williams Lifetime did in the US. In late 1969, following the demise of the Rendell-Carr quintet, and tiring of British jazz, Carr assembled the legendary Nucleus. Regarding music as a continuous process, Nucleus refused to “recognise rigid boundaries” and worked on delivering what they saw as a “total musical experience”. We can get behind that. Under bandleader Carr, Nucleus existed as a fluid line-up of inventive, skilled musicians. This constant evolution and revolution was all part of the continuous musical exploration and discovery that took jazz to new levels. Working together with producer Fritz Fryer and engineer Roger Wake, the seven compositions by Carr, Brian Smith and Dave MacRae that make up Roots flirt with perfection, and Nucleus at that time made up of the cream of 1970s UK jazz.

Akhenaten was the first album released on the fledgling Gondwana label back in 2009, it was the second release on the label and has remained a hugely popular and much sought after album ever since.Jazzman Records issued a vinyl version in 2016 (which quickly sold out and is now a collector’s item) and Nat reissued a CD version a few years later, but this is a much needed and long awaited new vinyl pressing.Featuring four original compositions the album is a deeply meditative offering of heartfelt Spiritual Jazz, in the classic mode of late 1960s/early 1970s John & Alice Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders.released September 4, 2016