The completed producers and good-taste-havers Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad (of A Tribe Referred to as Quest fame) based Jazz Is Useless, a file label and dwell music undertaking, again in 2017. This spring they’ll launch Jazz Is Useless 023, a Younge-produced album from the Brazilian singer Hyldon, who was simply 17 when his music profession first took off within the Nineteen Sixties and have become an influential determine within the soul-centric Black Rio motion of the Seventies.
For JID023, Hyldon recorded all new music in Younge’s analog studio. The impeccably funky lead single “O Caçador De Estrelas” is out at the moment. Right here’s a press release from Younge:
Producing a Hyldon album was a dream come true. I’ve studied his catalog for therefore a few years and extremely respect the way in which he blended the sound of The Beatles, with that of Marvin Gaye and Tim Maia. I’m nonetheless enamored by the truth that he’s even a greater singer now than he was, in what many deem, his prime. Additionally, we drastically miss our pricey buddy and contributor Mamão, the late drummer of Azymuth. We devoted this album to his reminiscence, and we want he might have had the prospect to listen to the completed album.
Hear “O Caçador De Estrelas” beneath together with the beforehand launched “Viajante do Planeta Azul.”
TRACKLIST:
01 “Viajante do Planeta Azul”
02 “O Cacador do Estrelas”
03 “Olhas Castanhos”
04 “Jenipapo Robotic”
05 “Favela do Rio de Janeiro”
06 “Verao No California”
07 “Um Lugar Authorized”
08 “Nhanderuvucu (The Creator God)”
Jazz Is Useless 023 is out 4/4 by way of Jazz Is Useless. Pre-order or pre-save it right here.
