Download: “Happy Birthday, Flying Lotus!” Jam Session [Audio clip: view full post to listen] L.A. visionary Flying Lotus just had a birthday, and in the true spirit of birthdays, ArtDontSleep delivers a gift in his honor to the world: the “Happy Birthday Flying Lotus!” jam session featuring Lotus, Exile, Shafiq Husayn, Computer Jay and many [...]

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azul213 Download: AM Sessions “A Love Supreme” [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Andrew Lojero at ArtDontSleep passes along the results of the inaugural AM Session—a freeform jazz jam including members of Blank Blue, the composer of the “Suite for Ma Dukes” and many more of L.A.’s new movement of free-thinking next-wave musicians. Recorded [...]

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Download: Arthur Verocai “Presente Grego” [Audio clip: view full post to listen] (from the self-titled LP coming soon on Ubiquity) Costa Mesa label Ubiquity—and its reissue arm Luv N Haight—have quietly announced a very limited vinyl repress of the long-gone Arthur Verocai LP, a lost masterpiece that surfaced only in 2002 and which provoked such [...]

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[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LVj7Elh7Z8] ArtDontSleep and Mochilla present this video of Arthur Verocai and orchestra performing “Seriado” (from his self-titled 1972 album reissued on Luv ‘n’ Haight) on Sunday at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex as part of the Timeless series. Check out other videos from earlier performances by Mulatu Astatke as well as the debut of the [...]

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Brazilian composer and arranger Arthur Verocai’s self-titled 1972 album is counterpart to American masterworks like Inspiration Information or Songs In The Key Of Life. After releasing this single album, Verocai left music for thirty years, returning only recently to composing and arranging. This interview by Chris Ziegler.

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