SECOND RELEASE FROM MADLIB’S ONCE-A-MONTH SERIES Madlib follows his Guilty Simpson Marketed and collaboration Before The Verdict promoted by (MMS 001) with Flight To Brazil, a Stones Throw Records ticket out of whichever hell-hole you find yourself and into an Publicity by Score Press 80-minute guided tour through five decades of Brazilian funk, Limited edition bossa-nova, jazz, psychedelic and progressive rock. Format: CD Cat. No: MMS 002 Label: Madlib Medicine Show The Madlib Medicine Show will be Available: February 23rd, 2010 a combination of Madlib's new hip-hop productions, remixes, beat tapes, and jazz, as well as mixtapes of funk, soul, Brazilian, psych, jazz and other undefined forms of music from the Beat Konducta's 4-ton* stack of vinyl. Next up: Beat Konducta In Africa and India, a continuation of Madlib’s country-specific excavations. *4-tons of vinyl, this is true. It’s all in his studio. 01. Cumbia Moderna De Soledad — Shacalao 02. Dan Satch And His Atomic 8 Dance Band — Woman Pin Down 03. 6th Infantry Brigade Of The Nigerian Army — Black And Proud 04. Bola Johnson — Hot Pants 05. Segun Bucknor — Adebo 06. Bola Johnson — Never Trust A Woman 07. Jerry Hansen — Sisi Mi 08. Lisandro Meza — Shacalao 09. Lever Brothers Gay Flamingoes — Egbi Mi O/Black Man's Cry (Medley) 10. Mosco Tiles Fonclaire Steel Orchestra — Black Man’s Cry 11. Sylvania East Side Symphony — Egbi Mi O/Black Man's Cry (Medley) 12. Phirpo Y Sus Caribes — Comencemos 13. Daktaris — Up Side Down 14. Karl Hector And The Malcouns — Toure Samar 15. Whitefield Brothers — Lullaby For Lagos He’s best known by his first name: Fela. He’s certainly Nigeria’s most famous musical export. His name itself conjures images of 70s Lagos. A Covers and music inspired by metropolis awash in the jubilation that swept in after the 1970 armistice in the civil war between the Nigerian Army and Eastern Biafran secessionists. the Godfather of Afro-Beat A capital city in the midst of transition. This is the environment in which Includes rare and previously Fela and his Africa 70 popularized the hybrid of highlife, jazz and James Brown style, big-band funk he invented: Afro-Beat. unreleased music from Nigeria, Ghana, Colombia, Trinidad and more In Nigeria, his countrymen knew his music like Americans know Elvis. On foreign shores, a chosen few Westerners could claim to know the extent of Fela’s genius. As a result, while music historians have filled books with references to the influence of Westerners on Fela’s creation, little has been KEY SELLING POINTS: said about Fela’s inspiration on others. Thus, our compilation begins. • Hard-cover book, including 20 page Fela’s music, and that of his organization inspired musicians across the color booklet with extensive liner notes, global village when Afro-Beat was new and novel. This compilation photos and annotation focuses on the music Fela inspired – whether by fellow Nigerians recording alongside him in the early 70s, neighbors in Ghana, then-modern • Publicity by Score Press Colombian cumbia ensembles inspired by the man who injected a new feel • Marketed and promoted by Stones Throw into the Yoruban rhythms that formed cumbia’s base, Trinidadian steel bands or the select few organizations left that have maintained Fela’s fury • Includes three previously unreleased in the new millennium. This is but a cursory investigation into those afro-beat tracks from the archives of inspired by Fela Kuti’s genius, but it is unique: the first time that many of Nigeria’s Premier Music these tracks are not only offered a second chance for worthy introspection, but, in the case of many, the first time they’re being issued full stop. ORDER CUT OFF DATE FOR THIS ITEM: FEB 2nd Format: CD in a hard-cover book Cat. No: NA 5056 Label: Now Again Available: FEBRUARY 23rd Now Again Records 2658 Griffith Park Blvd, #504, Los Angeles, CA, 90039 • www.nowagainrecords.com RECORD ONE - NIGERIA A1. Dan Satch And His Atomic 8 Dance Band — Woman Pin Down A2. 6th Infantry Brigade Of The Nigerian Army — Black And Proud B1. Bola Johnson — Never Trust A Woman B2. Bola Johnson — Hot Pants RECORD TWO - NIGERIA / GHANA A1. Segun Bucknor — Adebo B1. Jerry Hansen — Sisi Mi RECORD THREE - COLUMBIA / TRINIDAD A1. Phirpo Y Sus Caribes — Comencemos A2. Cumbia Moderna De Soledad — Shacalao A3. Lisandro Meza — Shacalao B1. Lever Brothers Gay Flamingoes — Egbi Mi O/Black Man's Cry (Medley) RECORD FOUR - TRINIDAD / Modern Inspirations A1. Mosco Tiles Fonclaire Steel Orchestra — Black Man’s Cry A2. Sylvania East Side Symphony — Egbi Mi O/Black Man's Cry (Medley) B1. Daktaris — Up Side Down B2. Karl Hector And The Malcouns — Toure Samar B3. Whitefield Brothers — Lullaby For Lagos He’s best known by his first name: Fela. He’s certainly Nigeria’s most famous musical export. His name itself conjures images of 70s Lagos. A Covers and music inspired by metropolis awash in the jubilation that swept in after the 1970 armistice in the civil war between the Nigerian Army and Eastern Biafran secessionists. the Godfather of Afro-Beat A capital city in the midst of transition. This is the environment in which Includes rare and previously Fela and his Africa 70 popularized the hybrid of highlife, jazz and James Brown style, big-band funk he invented: Afro-Beat. unreleased music from Nigeria, Ghana, Colombia, Trinidad and more In Nigeria, his countrymen knew his music like Americans know Elvis. On foreign shores, a chosen few Westerners could claim to know the extent of Fela’s genius. As a result, while music historians have filled books with references to the influence of Westerners on Fela’s creation, little has been KEY SELLING POINTS: said about Fela’s inspiration on others. Thus, our compilation begins. • Hard-bound slip case, including 24 page Fela’s music, and that of his organization inspired musicians across the color booklet with extensive liner notes, global village when Afro-Beat was new and novel. This compilation photos and annotation focuses on the music Fela inspired – whether by fellow Nigerians recording alongside him in the early 70s, neighbors in Ghana, then-modern • Publicity by Score Press Colombian cumbia ensembles inspired by the man who injected a new feel • Marketed and promoted by Stones Throw into the Yoruban rhythms that formed cumbia’s base, Trinidadian steel bands or the select few organizations left that have maintained Fela’s fury • Includes three previously unreleased in the new millennium. This is but a cursory investigation into those afro-beat tracks from the archives of inspired by Fela Kuti’s genius, but it is unique: the first time that many of Nigeria’s Premier Music these tracks are not only offered a second chance for worthy introspection, but, in the case of many, the first time they’re being issued full stop. ORDER CUT OFF DATE FOR THIS ITEM: FEB 2nd Format: 4x10” in a hard-bound slip case Cat. No: NA 5056 Label: Now Again Available: FEBRUARY 23rd Now Again Records 2658 Griffith Park Blvd, #504, Los Angeles, CA, 90039 • www.nowagainrecords.com 1. Derf (For Derf Reklaw) 2. One For The Monica Lingas Band 3. Horace (For Horace Tapscott) 4. Waltz For Woody (For Woody Shaw) 5. Shades Of Phil (For Phil Ranelin) 6. Black Renaissance (For Harry Whitaker) 7. Tones For Larry Young 8. Mystic Voyage (For Roy Ayers) 9. Two Stories For Dwight (For Dwight Tribble) 10. The Trane & The Pharoah (For John Coltrane & Pharoah Sanders) Madlib’s been busy these last couple years. And while his recorded output always spans the gamut, he often returns to recurrent The first album themes, spread across the genres that serve as home base – or bases, as it were. 2010 will be an ambitious one for Madlib and Stones Throw Records, with his slate of 12 Medicine Show albums in Madlib’s and mixes, his rap albums for the likes of Strong Arm Steady, Guilty Simpson and MED and a series of albums based around the Yesterdays Universe now-defunct Yesterdays New Quintet’s “spin off bands” that he introduced on the Yesterdays Universe album. If you’ve read this far, deep-jazz series you’re probably aware of the former two categories, now on to the jazz. The first of Madlib’s 2010 jazz albums is Last Electro-Acoustic Space Jazz & Percussion Ensemble’s Miles Away. KEY SELLING POINTS: Miles Away is Madlib’s tribute to a series of his jazz heroes from the 60s and, mainly, 70s, with suites, waltzes, ballads, modal-numbers • Thick cardboard tip-on “Mini-LP” and swinging funk inspired by and covered from the well known (Roy gatefold package includes CD dust jacket Ayers, Pharoah Sanders, John Coletrane) and the cult (Phil Ranelin, Harry Whitaker). This “band” shows an organic growth from their • Publicity by Score Press earliest releases (the limited edition Summer Suite and Fall Suite albums); electric flute, moog and synths stand aside accordions, • Marketed & promoted by Stones Throw sitars and vibraphones in an album that could only originate in the • Limited Edition mind of a loop-digging Beat Kouducta as reverent of jazz’s deep traditions as he is revolutionary. ORDER CUT OFF DATE FOR THIS ITEM: FEB 2nd Format: CD in a in a Paste-on jacket Cat. No: STH 2171 Label: Stones Throw Records Available: FEBRUARY 23rd Stones Throw Records 2658 Griffith Park Blvd, #504, Los Angeles, CA, 90039 • www.stonesthrow.com The Heaviest, Rarest, Best Fuzz-Funk-Psych 45s From Brazil “This isn’t your usual vinyl hookup... Magic wax... Face-melting 45s” — Following the success of the recently released Psych believe me when I write this: some of the rarest, and Funk 101, Brasilian Guitar, Fuzz Bananas should serve best, examples of fuzzy, funky Brazilian psychedelia as a master class for those entranced by the funky, came out as promo-only 7” records on these labels.” heavy psychedelic wonders of the Tropicalia movement and all that it spawned.