and so as we’ve been promising you for the past couple months – you know those tourist t-shirts that read ‘…..went to Havana and all I got was this t-shirt’ well lucky for us our good friend (GP Sportswide) went to Havana recently and what we are getting is a pretty amazing double album ‘Gilles Peterson Presents Havana Cultura’. Gilles’ whirlwind trip in Havana to make a record (or 2) at the legendary Egrem studios collaborating with top Cuban pianist Roberto Fonseca and Vince Vella has resulted in …..

ah it was beginning to feel alittle too quiet around here, but that is all about to change ! Our extra fun Death Jazz-ers from Japan are about 4 weeks away from destroying Europe AGAIN ! Kicking off on July 3rd at the glorious Worldwide Festival in Sete, the mighty Soil & “PIMP” Sessions take on Roskilde, the North Sea Jazz in Rotterdam, a romp through Germany and a WW10 Celebration at Koko in London on 9th July.

You will need no convincing that his much anticipated album ‘The Dreamer’ is well worth picking up on 28 January ! on vinyl and CD mind you. It also ties in with the Brownswood Recordings winter sale where you can get some Brownswood Bubblers, Ben Westbeech, Elan Mehler and the mighty SOIL & “PIMP” SESSIONS. [...]