Various - Erased Tapes 20･･－－－0 Artist_Y.K.

Various - Erased Tapes 20･･－－－0 Artist_Y.K.Following its limited vinyl release on Record Store Day, the results of our Erased Tapes 200 project are now widely available in physical form. "Especially in this time of isolation we need to remind ourselves of the importance of art, just how magical a medium sound is to express, to raise and answer question marks, to open and mend the soul its the most universally speaking of all languages as it knows no borders." At a time of global separation,

Lillemor—here minor harmonies give the tune a rural

Stadtkind represents a key point in her journey

a young Fela Kuti (and his Koola Lobitos outfit with drummer Tony Allen)

Each version comes with an insert reproducing the liner notes and lyrics from the original CD release

fast women

the Freestyle Fellowship

an expanded tracklist on the cassette/digital version brings more of Lattimore’s archives together for the first time

Zackey continued to hone his style

The record clearly carries some party soul elements from the scene that Reid was hitting as Blowfly – but the overall groove is straighter soul overall

Take Five is probably one of the jazz titles that is best-known to a mass audience

Listeners are led through enrapturing passages of swirling melodies underscored with eloquent plucks

thoroughly destabilized guitar could come from no other musician