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The Future Sound of Jazz series is an underated collection of the finest leftfield jazzier flavours from the West German label Compost Records. After the collections trips recently through all areas of dance music , and the most recent messy excursion to disco on volume 11. For volume 12 it's back to a jazzy edge. For FSOJ 12 there's a concoction of future be-bob, house, drum and base, hip -hop, pop, afro- funk, African drum beats,to Nordic Electronic jazz , chilled electronica vocals to Blue note flavoured bossa nova and disco, what a sizzling amalgamation! The collection is on the downtempoe scale of predominantly instrumentals that may take some time to digest.

Flautist and saxophonist, Chip Wickham returns with Blue to Red, his most absorbing and cosmically-charged offering to date. Soaring flute melodies, lush harp arpeggios and glistening Rhodes keys interact across six journeying, spiritual jazz compositions, leaning on a rich palette of sounds beyond borders, space and time.