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Heavenly Sweetness
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HS 244
15 Sep 23
Jazz
15 Sep 23
Jazz
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3663729 264626
30 Aug 23
International
30 Aug 23
International
Various
Aldo Romano, Louis Sclavis & Henri Texier - "Soweto Sorrow" (live At Jazz A Vienne, 2000) - (4:01) 99 BPM
Review: The Jazz A Vienne festival has been drawing jazz lovers to southeastern France every year since 1981, and now they mark their Covid-delayed 40th anniversary with a 14-track compilation featuring a blend of brand new material and classic live recordings from the festival itself - "hard bop, pure jazz classicism and hip-hop urgency united in a single breath," is how they put it. It's one of the vintage nuggets - The Milt Jackson & Hank Jones All-Star Quartet's 1997 recording of 'Delilah' - that provides the album's standout cut for yours truly, but with the likes of Lalo Schiffrin and Gilberto Gil nestling up alongside a host of younger artists, jazzbos of a more tradtional (but definitely not 'trad') mindset will find much to enjoy here.
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HS 233
27 May 22
Jazz
27 May 22
Jazz
Various
The John Betsch Society - "Earth Blossom" (feat Build An Ark - Loving Heart Collage by Carlos Nino - remix) - (4:05) 95 BPM
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366372 9180230
25 Nov 21
Soul
25 Nov 21
Soul
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HS 215
11 Dec 20
International
11 Dec 20
International
Played by: Juno Recommends Experimental
Review: For a slice of Heavenly Sweetness from arguably the best alt-contemporary jazz and spiritual label out there, may we reintroduce the sounds of four piece Laurent Bardainne & Tigre D'eau Douce! Having debuted last year with the four track Marvin EP, the group goes large with the Love Is Everywhere album taking in the freshest sounds of brass horns, percussion and free-lacin' cool jazz with all matter of rhodes, cowbells, drums and funkadelic basslines. For subtle disco vibrations look to "Bachibouzouk" alongside freer jazz compositions like "Cabane" and "Apaches". Recorded at ICP studios in Brussels the ensemble looks to ragtime in "Kinshasa" while keeping it mellow and subdued in "Everlasting Child" and spy movie themed in "Song Dong Hee".
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HS 203VL
24 Apr 20
Broken Beat/Nu Jazz
24 Apr 20
Broken Beat/Nu Jazz
Played by: Juno Recommends Funk
Review: Laurent Bardainne is a French saxophonist who's played in the bands Poni Hoax, Limousine and Lost. Last year his new combo Tigre D'Eau Douce made their debut at a European jazz festival, and how here are the first recorded fruits of their labours. Deep funk meets smooth jazz would be the overall idea, with Bardainne's sax naturally taking centre stage. Jazzbos should head for 'Aot' and 'Marvin' itself, 'Porsche 944' is the pick for the funkateers, while the Vibe Drops Remix of the latter caters for the b-boys and b-girls with an added rap vocal.
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HS193 BIS
25 Oct 19
Funk
25 Oct 19
Funk
Played by: Juno Recommends Broken Beat Nu Jazz
Review: Where to start with this one? On their first album proper (not counting a collaborative effort with Simone Mazzer in 2017), French duo Cotonete push jazz-fusion in directions that would have progenitors like Stanley Clarke, Weather Report or Morrissey-Mullen shaking their heads in wonder. With tracks ranging from the languid melancholy of 'Layla' and 'Super-Vilain' to the scorching jazz-funk of 'Last Drink', and from the more traditional jazz stylings of 'Escola Frances Dos Tubaroes' to the Afro-inspired 'Guarani Kaiowa', Super-Vilains is just dripping in invention and musicianship, and likely to find fans right across the jazz community.
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366372 9070807
01 Feb 19
Broken Beat/Nu Jazz
01 Feb 19
Broken Beat/Nu Jazz
Played by: Sam Redmore, Craig Charles Funk And Soul, RocknRolla Soundsystem, Juno Recommends Broken Beat Nu Jazz
Review: It would be fair to say that Anthony Joseph is an artist of many talents. Over the years he's collaborated with a multitude of top-notch musicians and producers, performed some breathtakingly good poetry and written some damn fine books. "People of the Sun", his latest album, is another triumph. Inspired by Port of Spain's legendary annual carnival, the set sees Joseph wrap his own politically charged spoken word vocals around some joyously positive music bristling with Caribbean musical references. There are naturally nods towards calypso and soca, not to mention plenty of typically tropical instrumental flourishes (steel drums, pedal steel, chiming metallic percussion), though the influence of soul, jazz-funk and, most notably, contemporary jazz is arguably much stronger. Either way, it's a terrific
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366372 9061539
21 Sep 18
International
21 Sep 18
International
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366372 9048431
02 Feb 18
International
02 Feb 18
International
Various
Played by: Craig Charles Funk And Soul
Review: Happy birthday Heavenly Sweetness! 10 years deep into their explorations, excavations and curations, French label Heavenly Sweetness look back over the decade and hand pick some of their favourite moments. With such a fine ear for timelessness and vibe, the whole collection runs with a soul and spiritual fluidity as one cohesive body of work; from the incredible-yet-so-gradual momentum of Chickenwing All Stars "Celestial Blues" to touching homages to the one and only Coltrane from both Patchworks and Byard Lancaster via slick spacebound feminist hip-hop from Sly Johnson and a stacks more, this is the type of collection you can lose entire weeks of your life to. Here's to another 10 years.
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HS 172
10 Nov 17
Broken Beat/Nu Jazz
10 Nov 17
Broken Beat/Nu Jazz
Review: The earlier editions of the Beach Diggin' series were released in the depths of winter, but this new fifth instalment continues to buck the trend by appearing at the height of summer. Ibiza veterans Mambo & Guts are once again at the helm, providing us with 13 more 'perfect soundtracks for a lazy day at the beach' (there's also a 40 min mix too!). Highlights include the squelchy electronic funk of Raphael Toine's "Femmes Pays Douces", the sleek Italo-disco/Balearica of Andre-Marie Tala's "Sweet Dole" and the Rebles' impossibly tropical soca cover of Sade's "Sweetest Taboo".
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HS 168VL
14 Jul 17
Disco/Nu-Disco
14 Jul 17
Disco/Nu-Disco
Various
Review: Here's yet another rare '80s compilation with even more deep cuts than the last. Where do they find them all? Heavenly Sweetness clearly know but they ain't telling! They are showing though, and here on Digital Zandoli they reveal 12 newly discovered disco, boogie and zouk tracks recorded about 30 years ago in the West Indies. We're clearly spoilt for choice on this record, but highlights include the synthetic sea breeze grooves of Puzzle Pulsion's "Mwoin Ka Songe", the mellow Afro grooves of Zanman's "Poutchi" and the abstract body music via a sandy beach vibes of OR EA's "Biguine Inferno".
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111443
08 Jul 16
Funk
08 Jul 16
Funk
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HS 14
22 Apr 16
Roots/Lovers Rock
22 Apr 16
Roots/Lovers Rock
Played by: The Allergies, Craig Charles Funk And Soul, Jayl Funk, Juno Recommends Funk, Murder He Wrote, Tru Thoughts
Review: Since making his debut in the mid noughties - some 15 years after he began making beats -Ibiza-based Guts has developed his sound somewhat. Where his early releases doffed a cap to classic trip-hop and downtempo grooves, recent outings have effortlessly joined the dots between live funk, golden era hip-hop and modern soul, with some notable jazz and Latin American influences thrown in. Eternal, his latest full-length, continues this approach, throwing in additional nods to P-funk (the superb "Give You Up"), nu-jazz ("Incomplete"), and Afrobeat ("Dance, Love & Die"). With a string of guest musicians, singers and rappers lending a hand, Eternal is a vibrant, thrill-a-minute album that shows off the full range of Guts' finely honed skills.
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98492
01 Apr 16
Funk
01 Apr 16
Funk
Review: Following releases on Brownswood and Do Right!, Leron Thomas has finally been given the opportunity to deliver his own long player courtesy of Heavenly Sweetness. It's an accomplished debut too, boasting 12 cuts of leftfield soul and funk. Highlights include the jazzy, space age dubber "Role Play", the low slung, live roller "Victorian Walls" and the punk-jazz fuzzbomb "Asako". Interesting stuff!
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79135
16 Oct 15
Funk
16 Oct 15
Funk
Various
Played by: Juno Recommends Broken Beat Nu Jazz
Review: Despite being presented as the perfect soundtrack for a lazy day at the beach, both previous installments of Beach Diggin' were released in January - not best time for the beach if you're up north. However this time, the in-house mixologists at Heavenly Sweetness, Guts and Mambo, are releasing volume three bang on time for summer. Last time they plowed super-deep and have dug up even more here, coming up with 14 sunkissed rarities including the golden tones of Gene Lawrence's "Feel Like Making Love" and the low down and dirty vintage funk dub-out "Wars In Space" by Brother Resistance. Now, where's the sunblock?
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66347
10 Jul 15
Broken Beat/Nu Jazz
10 Jul 15
Broken Beat/Nu Jazz
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65322
23 Dec 14
Broken Beat/Nu Jazz
23 Dec 14
Broken Beat/Nu Jazz
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65294
23 Dec 14
Broken Beat/Nu Jazz
23 Dec 14
Broken Beat/Nu Jazz
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64000
07 Oct 14
Broken Beat/Nu Jazz
07 Oct 14
Broken Beat/Nu Jazz
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63909
01 Jan 14
Hip Hop/R&B
01 Jan 14
Hip Hop/R&B
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63736
01 Jan 14
Funk
01 Jan 14
Funk
