Blue Note Re:imagined II (Coloured Vinyl 2xLP) Afrobeat & African

Blue Note Re:imagined II (Coloured Vinyl 2xLP) Afrobeat & AfricanPressed on clear wax Blue Note Re: imagined returns this year with a new 16 track compilation featuring fresh takes on music from the illustrious Blue Note vaults recorded by a heavyweight line up of the UK jazz, soul and R&B scene's most hotly tipped rising stars. Arriving off the back of the widespread international success of the first volume, which topped jazz charts around the globe, Blue Note Re: imagined II once again infuses the spirit of the

Yasuke tells the story of a samurai warrior of African descent in a fantastical alternate universe version of feudal Japan full of magic

while Mark Sandman was still touring with his first major label band

Raf is back with his follow-up

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Includes demo versions of the singles Down By The Water

Armed with a freer

immersive effect

but almost a novel

Many of Malik's records have been released via his own Truth Manifest Records so it is a joy to share his music with the world via The Jazz Diaries

recorded in the early 1980s

four tracks of cheerily ominous storytelling set to synth stabs and trumpet flourishes

Hope surrounds himself with musicians whose reputations are now legendary: Philly Joe Jones