Our own Ex-Friendly has teamed up with J-Ven as Upright Natives and released this minor electronica gem on Truth & Lies Music. We are offering you a free download of the EP and a chance to view the brilliant video by Alex Morris (The Framley Examiner)...enjoy!
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Revolution and Change: Bogotá, Colombia 1995
A programme of Music and Arts exploring the inspirational transformation of Colombia’s ravaged capital in the 1990s
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How to Hack a Music Venue for Disabled Audiences (an easy DIY guide!)
Here at Truth & Lies, we fully support anything that helps increase accessibility for all audiences and Attitude Is Everything has come up with this simple guide for helping make gigs easier for disabled audiences to access.
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Kind & Kinky Zoo - Released! (Légère Recordings)
Fancy some fierce and raw 60's meets Afro style funk in your life? Then try this from Switzerland's Kind & Kinky Zoo...
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Tiny Leaves 'Notes On Belonging' (Pegdoll Records)
Tiny Leaves is the music of composer Joel Nathaniel Pike and he has made this really quite lovely four track album using only piano and strings. Full of yearning and pastoral reflection, this is perfect music for letting go and just being.
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Cy Gorman 'Kupu Kupu' EP (Heard and Felt)
Melbourne's Cy Gorman has released this super-fresh EP mixing 808s, ukeleles, samples and Indonesian/Indian vocals and it sounds unlike anything we've heard before!
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Truth & Lies' Silent Disco for Hockley Hustle 2017 - Photos by Nick Clague
Ace snapper Nick Clague took some shots of the Silent Disco that we curated and ran for this year's awesome Hockley Hustle festival in Nottingham!
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IF Music presents ‘You Need This: An Introduction To Black Saint & Soul Note (1975 - 1985) - BBE Records
From the compiler of the essential ‘Journey into Deep Jazz Volumes 1 and 2’ on BBE comes the first in a new series of albums focusing on artists or labels that may have passed by many music-lovers radar but deserve much wider recognition. Check our review here...
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Truth & Lies presents: 'Hip Hop Revolución' Film Screening and DJ Session
Truth & Lies Music Presents a Revolution and Change Special - a free screening of Pablo Navarrete's 'Hip Hop Revolución' (Alborada Films 2015) documentary and a DJ session of music from Venezuela at Rough Trade Nottingham.
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BENNIE PETE (HOT 8 BRASS BAND) - An interview July 2016 (previously unpublished)
As longtime supporters of the band, we caught up with bandleader and co-founder Bennie 'Big Pete' Pete on their 20th anniversary tour for a little chat before their gig at the Riverbank in Nottingham in July 2016. Previously unpublished, Ex-Friendly elicits some true insight from this gentle and quietly spoken man into the history and ongoing challenges of being a musician from one of the toughest but most inspirational cities in the US.
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Revolution & Change 'Venezuela & the Tropics' at Houghton Festival 2017
For the inaugural Houghton Festival, Truth & Lies are going to explore ‘Revolution & Change in Venezuela and the Tropics’ through films, talks, design and crates of the funkiest music in the World! (read more to find out what we will be up to...)
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Yazmin Lacey - an interview
Yazmin Lacey is a proper East End girl who after moving to Nottingham several years ago found her voice and what a voice it is, fragile yet strong, a voice for classic soul music but with its roots in surprising places. Ex-Friendly caught up with her over a beer on the eve of her first solo release, an extended EP entitled ‘Black Moon’, soul jazz ripe with emotion containing hints of broken beat and other indicators of what is to come.
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John Armstrong presents Afrobeat Brasil (BBE) - a review
On this brilliant new compilation for BBE, ace compiler John Armstrong has dug deep into the Afrobeat influenced bands coming out of Brazil and it’s as fresh as a ripe mango, Fela Kuti and Tony Allen’s rhythms as a starting point not as a mirror. Influences from everywhere mesh and entwine with the classic Afrobeat horn and percussion template giving us a collection unlike any other.
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DJ Tahira - an interview
DJ Tahira is a superbly eclectic DJ and Producer from São Paulo in Brazil who is becoming famous for his deep explorations into traditional Brazilian rhythms pairing them alongside all kinds of beats and pieces from House to Hip Hop and much more...Ex-Friendly caught up with the much in demand man for a quick interview about his inspirations and plans for the future...
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World Sprituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda
Majestic..Transcendental..Wonderful..Buy it!
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Tamil Rogeon ‘24 Hours in Lapa’ review - Heard and Felt
A quite astounding album of epic orchestral arrangements, Brazilian rhythms and sublime vocal turns inspired by a single event...the killing of a young Australian guy in Rio. Read the review here...
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Another rocking Record Store Day at Rough Trade Nottingham (a few pictures)
Some photos from our Yard Party at Rough trade Nottingham for Record Store Day 2017
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Yard Party at Rough Trade Nottingham for RSD2017 - 15 hours of vinyl!
15 Hours of Sound on Wax
Record Store Day 2017
Truth & Lies Yard Party, Rough Trade Nottingham
8am–11pm!!
Music That Speaks To...Todd M. Simon
We've got ourselves another ridiculous talent for our 'Music that Speaks To...' series - LA based trumpeter/arranger/DJ Todd M. Simon! I'll leave the intro to Gilles Peterson “Todd is one of the main players in the city of angels.” Check what he's chosen for us...
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Music That Speaks To...Dave Davis (Sun Ra Arkestra)
A surprising and personal selection of music from the legendary Sun Ra Arkestra's trombonist Dave Davis for our 'Music that speaks to...' sessions...
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