New releases: "In the Mind of Jamie Cullum" and Antonio Adolfo's "Destiny"

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Welcome, mid August for what should be a vacation time for some, though this doesn’t seem to apply to the record labels looking at the newslist this week? Another bumper week of aural delights for your pleasure and we get straight into the thick of things with …

Miss Eva Be, our favourite sassy DJ and producer from the Berlin clan at Sonar Kollektiv. Check her excellent debut album for the gang, ‘Moving without travelling’. Great stuff.
Now another label from Germany that I always check for is the Unique imprint and its great to see the Regal release hit the store. Brilliant stuff and please do check this one out.
Jazz funkers like myself digging King Britt’s deep and intergalactic ‘Cosmic Lounge 1’ selection. It’s very heavy and not for anyone other than the most knowledgeable of jazz heads but still, it’s right up my strasse.
Check out ‘M.A.N.D.Y’ for the very best remixes for ‘Get Physical’. Heard this CD in the office a few times and getting good props by the boys at Soul Seduction.
Another one heard in the office the last weeks is the ‘Kompakt Total 8’, another fine collection of very fashionable music. And not to go out of fashion too, that’s what makes some of our music so unique.

Vinyl wise, another ‘Beatconductor’ 12” outing. Does this guy ever sleep? It seems thankfully for us, no.
‘Fantastic freeriding remixed’ from the Switchstance boys appears on the loved vinyl format. Some seriously good producers on remix duty there. Check it.
Chris Joss and his ‘Superman’ release get’s a shot in the list too. A few customers have been bugging me about this one also. 18th street lounge the instigator of these funky beats.
Marcello Giordani and his ‘I'm not a blade runner’ appears on the list. These guys simply never fail me.

OK, enough from you host as usual. I know you guys have your own favs to check out too. Don’t be put off by the date, the labels are still releasing lots of fine music over the summer. As usual too, check out the whole list as the email gives up just a few pages of what is doing.
Holiday time on Wednesday in Austria, so those mailing or the crew Wednesday expect a reply on Thursday.

Antonio Adolfo & Brazuka: "Destiny" (Far Out)

Slick Brazilian breaks and sweet vocal harmonies combine for some delicious 70s funky carioca flavour...Far Out keep the '70s vibes flowing with 'Destiny', the new CD from legendary Brazilian composer Antonio Adolfo.
Fans of classic female bossa nova in the vein of Sergio Mendes & Mario Castro-Neves's Samba S.A. will go crazy for 'Destiny' as it features the dulcet tones of not one, but, two girls from Ipanema, Antonio's daughters' Carol & Luisa. Their crystal-clear, tone-perfect voices float perfectly over Antonio's late 60s & 70s inspired Brazilian grooves that combine influences from jazz, classic Brazilian 60s pop, Tropicalia, easy-scoring and funk.
In the late '60s and '70s Antonio was known as the master of funky-Brazilian breaks and beats and 'Destiny' sounds like it's been beamed straight from that era as it's full to the brim with choppy wah-wah guitars and slick-bossa breaks that the Beastie Boys would give their right arms for. When you learn the pedigree of the musicians involved this should come as no surprise: from the mighty Azymuth comes drummer Ivan Conti & bassist Alex Malheiros, from Grupo Batuque the percussive powerhouse Dom Chacal, original Mr-funky-guitar Ze Carlos is present and even the one-and-only Arthur Verocai, the man behind Madlib's favourite Brazilian CD ever, is here with a string arrangement.
Antonio fills us in on the recordings of this album: "Everything was recorded with myself playing a Fender Rhodes piano and I am proud to say that the two female voices are my daughters Luisa and Carol, who sing as if one, with the timbre of Carioca girls. I am so pleased to record this album now in the 21st Century with the wonderful studio technology we now have. I always believed it was my 'Destiny' to record this album."
He is probably best known outside of Brazil for his work as Antonio Adolfo & Brazuca, and mainly as the composer of "Pretty World" (Sá Marina), a cult-hit in Japan.

"In the Mind of Jamie Cullum" (District 6)
Compiled by Jamie Cullum, multi million selling internationally renowned jazz man this is Jamie Cullum's first ever compilation project. An exciting glimpse into the diverse musical mind of a modern day jazz genius. Includes two entirely exclusive new tracks from the man who single-handedly re-invented the jazz genre for the masses, a Jamie Cullum original composition plus a new classic jazz cover. Covering the diverse jazz spectrum from modern through dance to hip-hop, this is "jazz not jazz"
Born in Essex and raised in Wiltshire, Jamie Cullum was obsessed with all types of music from an early age - rock, hip-hop, folk, dance, acid jazz, blues. He discovered straight ahead jazz as a teenager, through artists like Herbie Hancock, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis and Luiz Bonfa (represented here by his lovely samba-canção "Perdido de Amor"), but also showed an interest in the groundbreaking Steely Dan albums purchased by his brother Ben, who now co-writes much of Jamie's original material. While studying English at college Jamie immersed himself in the various offerings of the UK dance scene and began working as a singer-pianist anywhere he could get a gig - on cruise ships, in pubs, even wedding receptions, crafting his explosive on-stage persona which captures and enthralls audiences world-wide today.
With over 2.5 million albums sold to date and over 100 festival, stadium and concert hall gigs a year for the last three, including a 75,000 head-line performance in the grounds of Blenheim Palace, Jamie Cullum is undoubtedly a jazz phenomenon. Regularly covering a huge selection of artists and genres in his live show, he jumped at the chance to express his influences in the second "In the mind of" album.
Jamie Cullum continues to redefine where the parameters of pop and jazz - indeed, all musical genres - are drawn, both on stage and while working on his new album. "People ask why I play jazz. It's because you can take it to so many different places. You can embrace dance music, rock, pop music, classical, funk, everything... And I touch on all those things in this record. This CD feels like a fantasy resumé," says Cullum, "or a mix tape I would make for a great friend or a really hot girl."