🟧⬛60 χρόνια Impulse!Records

 Η θρυλική δισκογραφική εταιρεία Impulse!Records, γιορτάζει τα 60 χρόνια από την ίδρυση της.

IMPULSE RECORDS: MUSIC, MESSAGE AND THE MOMENT

• For 60 years, the legendary Impulse! Records has been home to the greatest jazz artists of all time, including John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Archie Shepp, Alice Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Quincy Jones, and more. The orange-and-black imprint known as the House That Trane Built was a cultural beacon of progressivism, spiritualism, and activism throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Today, the label thrives with a new vanguard of jazz artists including Shabaka Hutchings, Sons of Kemet, The Comet Is Coming, Brandee Younger, Ted Poor and more. 

To celebrate its 60^th anniversary, Impulse! Records and UMe, the global catalog company of Universal Music Group, announce today a year-long campaign that includes a gorgeous, curated box set, a reimagined Alice Coltrane rarity, Turiya Sings, high-fidelity vinyl reissues, curated playlists, brand partnerships, new deep-dive video content and more to be announced throughout 2021.

The set features a curation of music that speaks to the political, social and spiritual elements that were swirling in the music during this time. Conversations about civil rights were echoed in records such as John Coltrane’s Alabama, Archie Shepp’s Attica Blues, John and Alice Coltrane’s Reverend King, Charlie Haden and the Liberation Orchestra’s We Shall Overcome, and Oliver Nelson’s The Rights Of All. Spirituality, transcendentalism, and Afrofuturism offered a higher plane of existence and identity through the music of Albert Ayler, Pharoah Sanders, John Coltrane and Alice Coltrane. The historical importance of social music too is reflected in the works of Quincy Jones, John Handy and more.

 

Δείτε το σχετικό unboxing video εδώ με το 4-LP box set:

“...A collection celebrating Impulse’s deep-digging support of artists who scored We The People’s SingFight-ing for social political and artists’ self-determination in a critical time of beatdowns, breakthroughs and cosmically-centered aspirations.” - Musician/Essayist Greg Tate

 

“In many ways, this collection is a mural in sound of the activist’s stimulation of the Sixties and Seventies…we need this scope of sound again: We need the horns to scream of stout resistance, and we need the bands to sing to us of the righteous beauty of our souls.”

- Journalist/Author A.B. Spellman

 

• Επίσης, η σειρά Acoustic Sounds για να γιορτάσει τα 60 χρόνια της Impulse!, επανεκδίδει σε βινύλιο με πολύ καλή ποιότητα ήχου, κλασικά jazz ηχογραφήματα που υπήρχαν σε κασέτες από τους καλλιτέχνες Gil Evans & Ray Charles.

The acclaimed audiophile vinyl reissues series, Acoustic Sounds, (Verve/UMe) will celebrate Impulse! all year long with high-end, audiophile grade pressings of integral records from the label’s vaunted catalog, starting with with Ray Charles’ Genius + Soul = Jazz, which was one of the orange label’s first four commercial releases in 1961. Gil Evans’ Out of the Cool Oliver Nelson’s The Blues And The Abstract Truth, Sonny Rollins’ On Impulse! and many more are set for release throughout the year. Utilizing the skills of the top mastering engineers and the unsurpassed production craft of Quality Record Pressings, all titles will be mastered from the original master tapes, pressed on 180-gram vinyl and packaged by Stoughton Printing Co.in high-quality tip-on gatefold jackets. Like all Acoustic Sounds LPs, the releases will be supervised by Chad Kassem, CEO of Acoustic Sounds, the world’s largest source for audiophile recordings.

GIL EVANS OUT OF THE COOL https://verve.lnk.to/GEOOutOfTheCool/

RAY CHARLES  GENIUS + SOUL = JAZZ https://verve.lnk.to/RCGeniusSoulJazz/

 

• Τέλος, μια ακόμη ενέργεια για την επέτειο της Impulse!Records είναι η κυκλοφορία του νέου album των Sons Of Kemet με τίτλο: “Black To The Future”. 
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Musically, Black To The Future is a bigger affair than previous Sons of Kemet records. The core group – Theon Cross (tuba), Edward Wakili-Hick (percussion), Tom Skinner (percussion) – is enhanced by guests such as Jazz warrior UK saxophonist Steve Williamson, Chicago bandleader/vocalist Angel Bat Dawid, American poet Moor Mother, legendary British Grime emcee D Double E, British artist/rapper/spoken word musical artist Kojey Radical, and more. Shabaka Hutchings also adds complex layers of woodwind instrumentation throughout the record, which he did during lockdown.

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  SONS OF KEMET:

   https://SonsOfKemet.lnk.to/BlackToTheFuture