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BBC Radio 1′s Huw Stephens picked OHM as his Label of Love this week. That means an exclusive new cut from Paul White on the show and an interview with our benevolent leader Alex Chase. Plus he dropped Mo Kolours’ Banana Wine amongst new bits from Gold Panda, Raffertie, and a band who may or may not be good, but are definitely called Wet Nuns.
Check the show on the iPlayer this week here or download the podcast.
It’s no secret that Jehst is one of our favourite MCs here at OHM. He just dropped a very limited 12″ of remixes of tracks from his superb Dragon of an Ordinary Family LP, and one of them is by none other than our own Mo Kolours. Check that below and look our for the rest of the package by Om Unit, Arp 101 and Aye Pee.
Mo Kolours’ EP2: Banana Wine has been flying off the shelves and the free download of the whole EP has proved a hit too. A video for the title track was clearly overdue and here we have footage of Mo Kolours doing his thing amongst all sorts of weird and wonderful footage of bananas, snake charmers, dancing girls and more. Watch it and see.
Thanks to directors Jim Demuth, Posy Dixon and Mo Kolours.
If we do a video for another song from the EP, which should it be?
Beautiful Swimmers from Washington D.C. present a brilliant tribute mix to Don Cherry, the multi-instrumentalist best known for playing the cornet & pocket trumpet with the likes of John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman. Whether this is an introduction to his vast catalogue of “world” jazz recordings or just a new way of hearing some of it, we hope you enjoy it.
This is the first in a series of OHM Dedication mixes, in which we ask friends & collaborators to shine a light on a favourite musician, group, songwriter or producer. We hope to introduce you to new sounds and explain our musical universe in the most enjoyable way possible: the music itself. All illustrations will be by the brilliant London artist Emily Evans, who will interpret each mix in her own way.
Music by Don Cherry and friends
Mix by Beautiful Swimmers
Artwork by Emily Evans
To download Beautiful Swimmers’ remix of Mo Kolours’ Mini Culcha for free, click here
1. Don Cherry – Brown Rice
2. Old & New Dreams – Song For The Whales
3. Trilok Gurtu – Shangri La/Usfret
4. Don Cherry – Moving Pictures For The Ear
5. Don Cherry & Latif Khan – Air Mail
6. Don Cherry – Journey of Malarepa
7. Don Cherry – Brilliant Action/Amejelo (drum solo Ed Blackwell)
8. Sonny Murray – Black Art (poem Amiri Baraka)
9. Terry Riley, Don Cherry, Karl Berger – Piece 1, Koln Concert 1975
10. Don Cherry – Kamapa Chenno
11. Don Cherry – Love Train
12. Tullio Di Piscopo – Stop Bajon
13. Bengt Berger – Tongsi
14. Old & New Dreams – Guinea
If you want to find out more about Cherry, this feature from The Wire magazine is a good place to start.
Half-Mauritian singer-percussionist Mo Kolours returns with his second release: EP2: Banana Wine. Last year’s EP1: Drum Talking saw his blend of soul, dub and various electronic styles with the Sega music of his ancestral home celebrated far and wide. As the UK’s FACT Magazine remarked, “The wonderful Mo Kolours laces his loping, hashed-out Madlib-meets-Theo Parrish beat confections with melodies from the folk music of his homeland”, and while those Mauritian influences still give Mo Kolours’ work an otherworldly feel, EP2: Banana Wine is more evocative of the his current home in South London than his debut release. Features a remix from Beautiful Swimmers.
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