Results for "Strut Records"

Gioele Pagliaccia

Born: July 3, 1980

Gioele Pagliaccia is a drummer, multi instrumentalist and composer born in Marsciano (Perugia) but raised between Italy, the United States and Santo Domingo.

Thanks to his step-dad he started playing percussion at age 8 but switched to drums three years later, teaching himself how to play by obsessively practicing over records by The Police, Primus, Fela Kuti, Slayer and John Coltrane. Around that time he also learned how to play both the acoustic and electric guitars with which he still composes all kinds of music.

After moving to the United States with his family in the mid 90’s and receiving his diploma from the Corvallis High School (OR), he lived and played in New York and San Francisco learning the language of jazz. After a few years he moved to Rome and quickly became part of the city's vibrant scene, performing with artists such as Pasquale Innarella, Henry Cook (Either Orchestra, Mulatu Astatke) and Manlio Maresca among others.

Nubiyan Twist: Freedom Fables

by Chris May
January 23, 2021

Guitarist Tom Excell's Nubiyan Twist is one of the more substantial groove-based fusion outfits orbiting the perimeter of Britain's alternative jazz world. The band combines soul, funk, modal jazz, hip hop, and West African Afrobeat and highlife in a dancefloor-friendly melange which is a whole lot of fun while also possessing some depth. Based in Leeds ...

Sun Ra Arkestra: Swirling

by Ian Patterson
January 2, 2021

Though Sun Ra departed Earth in 1993, his music has continued to thrive, first under the stewardship of John Gilmore and, since 1995, by the remarkable Marshall Allen who turned 96 in May 2020. A live Arkestra show still contains many of the elements that have been present since the 1950s and '60s--color, pageantry and music ...

Soul Love Now: The Black Fire Records Story 1975-1993

Label: Strut Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Children Of Tomorrow's Dreams; Soul Love Now; Drummers From Ibadan; Nia; Doin The Carvin For Thabo; Look At The People; Third House; African Rhythms; Follow Me; People.

Seductive Fantasy

By Sun Ra Arkestra

Label: Strut Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Seductive Fantasy.

African Rhythms 1970-1982

By James "Plunky" Branch

Label: Strut Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Oneness Of Juju - African Rhythms (Album Version); Oneness Of Juju - Follow Me; Oneness Of Juju – Space Jungle Funk; Juju & The Space Rangers – Got To Be Right On It (Original 45 Version); Okyerema Asante feat. Plunky – Sabi (Black Fire Mix); Interlude: Rhythms Timelessness; Roach Om – No Name #3/ Love Is…/My N*Gg*R & Me; Oneness Of Juju – West Wind (Previously Unreleased); Juju – Freedom Fighter; Oneness Of Juju – Be About The Future; Oneness Of Juju – Nooky; Interlude: African Rhythms; Plunky & Oneness Of Juju – Every Way But Loose (Original Version);Oneness Of Juju – Bootsie’s Lament (Unreleased Version); Oneness Of Juju – Chants / Don’t Give Up; Oneness Of Juju – River Luv Rite; Plunky & Oneness Of Juju – Higher; Interlude: African Rhythms Chant; Juju – Nairobi / Chants; Okyerema Asante feat. Plunky – Asante Sana; Interlude: African Rhythms II; Juju & The Space Rangers – Plastic (Original 45 Version); Oneness Of Juju – African Rhythms (Original 45 Version: Part 1); Juju – The End Of The Butterfly King.

Swirling

By Marshall Allen

Label: Strut Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Satellites Are Spinning / Lights On A Satellite; Seductive Fantasy; Swirling; Angels And Demons At Play; Sea Of Darkness / Darkness; Rocket No. 9; Astro Black; Infinity / I’ll Wait For You; Sunology; Door Of The Cosmos / Say; Queer Notions (2xLP bonus track).

Shaman!

By Idris Ackamoor

Label: Strut Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Act 1: Shaman; Tango Of Love; Act 2: Eternity; When Will I See You Again?; Act 3: Salvation; Theme For Cecil; Act 4: Virgin; The Last Slave Ship; Dogon Mysteries.

Sun Ra Arkestra: Swirling

by Chris May
November 8, 2020

Saturn moved into the ascendant in October 2020 when the Sun Ra Arkestra under the direction of alto saxophonist Marshall Allen released its first studio album in over twenty years. Swirling presents new arrangements of both well-known and more obscure Ra tunes, played by a fifteen-piece lineup which includes band veterans and relative newcomers. It is ...

Various Artists: Soul Love Now: The Black Fire Records Story 1975-1993

by Chris May
July 27, 2020

The significance of this superb compilation is summed up by a fuzzy b&w photo inside the twenty-eight page accompanying booklet. It shows Oneness Of Juju gathered round a twenty-foot replica of the Statue of Liberty in their hometown, Richmond, Virginia in 1976. You can just make out the expressions of optimism and, yes, patriotism on the ...