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| Ubiquity to release Nostalgia 77's 'The Garden' on March 22 Ubiquity Records to release Nostalgia 77's second album The Garden on March 22 The maturity and sensitivity of Tru Thoughts (Quantic) Recording artist Nostalgia 77’s music belie his relatively recent step into beat-making. Influences are wide ranging; the drums of funk and hip-hop are strong guiding forces, as is the melody of jazz and the atmosphere of psychedelic rock. The Garden will be released on Ubiquity simultaneously in select territories - USA, Canada, Spain, Mexico, and South Africa. Nostalgia 77 aka Ben Lamdin first burst onto the scene with his heavy, new funk based sound. The maturity and sensitivity of Nostalgia 77’s music belie his relatively recent step into beat-making. Having consistently refined the quality of his musical selection while djing for a number of years, the fuller musical expression of actually making his own music was inevitable. Unleashing some club friendly tracks on Tru Thoughts’ hugely influential 7Sevens imprint in 2002, he eventually followed up with his seminal debut LP entitled Songs For My Funeral in February 2004, exploring a more downtempo and jazzier style. The success of his album encouraged him to progress with this style for his second album The Garden, a style which he describes as “a combination of soul and jazz composition with computer based production techniques.” Ubiquity Records will be releasing The Garden in select territories - USA, Canada, Spain, Mexico, and South Africa. The album will be available on Tru Thoughts in the rest of the world. “Coming from producing hip hop style beats I'd always heard snippets of jazz tracks I loved. This LP was a way of doing some jazz tracks which did what I wanted from start to finish,” says Lamdin. Nostalgia 77 is aiming for an edgy sound whilst continuing to search for a more personal expression. The influences include.... free and spiritual jazz - Sun Ra - Coltrane - AACM - Don Cherry - Ornett Coleman - Archie Shepp – Mingus - Max Roach, British jazz like Keith Tippet & Graham Collier, 60's funk & soul and Afro sounds. write your comments about the article :: © 2005 Jazz News :: home page |