Melvin Gibbs - Anamibia Sessions 1: The Wave

Melvin Gibbs - Anamibia Sessions 1: The WaveVinyl LP pressing. Melvin Gibbs is the renowned bass player and producer from Brooklyn who's vast resume includes playing with Sonny Sharrock, John Zorn, The Rollins Band, Dead Prez, Caetano Veloso and Femi Kuti amongst others. A solid resume, no doubt, but what is Gibbs doing on Editions Mego? Behind the scenes, those who know Gibbs knew that amongst all this he was also tinkering away at another form of music, one which skirts around the border

Maggot Brain delivers politically charged grooves and hypnotic rhythms that helped define George Clinton’s revolutionary vision

His music has been noted for it's intricacy and originality by his peers

again and again: I is another in the music of Apparat

It follows his triumphant return to touring this summer with headline sets at Reading

arena-ready rock sound

Wye Oak started as two friends (Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack) recording songwriting demos together

1 is the first installment in a 3-part trilogy of releases to come out in 2011/2012

Regarding song writing

A quarter of a century later

With the smooth vocals of The Ethiopians in front of the mix and the organ sound in the background

Murray Street was the first album by the band to feature Jim O'Rourke as an official fifth member to bolster the group's sound

The Indications highlight a collective resiliency - as well as the power of a good song to be a light in the darkness