HiM - Many In High Places Are Not Well

from www.allaboutjazz.com: "Many In High Places Are Not Well is a gentle and iridescent collision of color and cultures. The group combines elements of reggae, West African kora music, hip hop, and trance into a unique solid amalgam of modern music. Whether one calls it “jazz” or “not jazz,” doesn't matter—this is inspired music played by people who care about what they're expressing, and they do it very well... Fans of Tortoise, Chicago Underground, Isotope 217, Can, Codona, and the Art Ensemble of Chicago should find plenty to please them within these grooves."
Soulful strain of polyrhythms and syncopated melodies, this is one of the warmest recordings I ever heard.

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Motorpsycho & Jaga Jazzist Horns - In The Fishtank 10

Not quite sure why I couldn't find it blogged anywhere, probably the best one of all the Fishtank Sessions I heard so far. Say: "moody". Well, when you said it, I hope you didn't think of just one sort of mood, because this one rides through all of them. Waves from post-rock figures through jazzy, almost big band sounds, this album is worth twice the bucks. Theme de Yo-Yo interpretation is worth the story itself. Beautiful in whole, precious in elements.

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Mike Dillon's Go-Go Jungle - Battery Milk

Vibraphone and percussion master, Mike Dillon is an accomplished musician who worked with incredible variety of artists such as: Ani DiFranco, Les Claypool, Edie Brickell and The New Bohemians, and founding member of Seattle's grunge-jazz fame of Critters Buggin - now teams up here to create more raw and face-a-face sound than in his previous works. Lounge mood and ridiculously childish approach to adult themes, it's hard to tell where the genre bastards will put this one.

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Drugs - A Prescription For Mis America

Simply to put it, this is a masterpiece. To cite: “reviving the psychedelic sound of the 60’s but mixing it with a touch of Sly Stone and Curtis Mayfield to create their own sound, not a parody of those who came before.” ushering in the Psychedelic Soul Revolution. P funk fan mags have described it as “take up where the 1972 Funkadelic classic America Eats Its Young leaves off.”
Well, if you liked the opening tune for Maggot Brain from Funkadelic and thought "damn, why the drums aren't kicking yet?!" - you'll go easy with this one.

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