From 24 In 25

Here's a few releases from late 2024 to kickstart 2025- late to me in 2024 that is, not late in the year releases, but things that either I only just caught up with or for whatever reason didn't write about earlier last year. Two of them came via Flightpath excursions. The first is Reunion by Quiet Village, a record Dan played at The Golden Lion and which caught my ear (along with one he played from 1969 but we'll come back to that at another time). 

Quiet Village are from London, a duo who play a cocktail of future jazz, downtempo, ambient/ Balearic and funk/ soul. Reunion is very much in the future jazz camp, with a rattling 6/8 rhythm, piano and a hard edge- then a sax comes in and drifts over the top into infinity. Sun Ra, Carl Craig, Clyde Stubblefield. Retro- futuristic sci jazz? Whatever labels we're using, it's rather beautiful. Available digitally at Bandcamp.

Also from the Flightpath Estate DJs record boxes is Dyslexia Sound Source by Autumns, and an album recommended by both Martin and Mark- tight percussive dub shot through with experimental post punk. The ten track album is superb from start to finish. The track I'm posting here is for the title as well as for the music, Interpretive Dance Is A Scam, no nonsense, no fat, heavy duty dubwise sounds. Dyslexia Sound Source can be found here. 

Finally, Flightpath connected but one step removed, Mark's brother Carl lives in Australia and a couple of days ago sent me a link to an album by a band called Aircooled. Eat The Gold is six songs long, a fusing of krauty/ cosmische and spiky indie rock from a three piece from St. Leonards made up of drummer Justin Welch (formerly of Elastica and The Mary Chain), Katherine Wallinger (The Wedding Present, Viv Albertine), Oliver Cherer (Miki Berenyi's Trio) and Riz Maslen (FSOL). It's all good but today the eight minute sweeping West German majesty of Star Rider is the one that really hits the spot. The full album is at Bandcamp.