Shams Dinn – شمس دينFormat : LP Label : Smiling C Catalog # : SC#01 Genre : World Shams Dinn (Ben Bouchta Mohammed) was born in Oudja, Morocco in the 60s. His father died before he was born, and he was raised by his grandfather, a Sufi ascetic who awoke a spiritual path within Shams that he has felt connected with his entire life. When he was around 10 years old, he immigrated to Lyon, France with his mother. He grew up enthralled by the burgeoning underground hip hop

This is Mulatu Astatke’s protege and Ethiopian saxophonist and composer Jorga Mesfin’s debut album

Union Chapel

Each subsequent session built upon the last

a shadow-drenched industrial roller

only the European and Japanese CD versions of Kollage was released with the brilliantly breezy “Path To Rhythm”

Expect depth charge bass-weight primed for meditative moments

you’re at the mercy of what other people are creating

who The New Yorker called a "songwriter cut from Veloso's mold and blessed with a flair for the intimate

the moody bass weight of Bristol trip-hop and Sheffield bleep

featuring unreleased sessions from 1979 and 1990

Titonton Duvanté

Label : Purple Print