Glass Beams - MirageFormat : 12" EP Label : Reseach Records Catalog # : RREP07 Genre : Funk World Research Records indicate their inclination for cosmic instrumentation and kraut pervaded polyrhythms once again with an introduction to newcomer Glass Beams. Recorded at the beginning of 2020, Mirage is the first release from the artist, issuing four compositions that lend from a profusion of sounds and influences. "I was looking for new energy & inspiration to write a

yet tender tenor saxophone take

Japanese deep house pioneer Soichi Terada stepped back into the limelight courtesy of Sounds From The Far East

With vintage synths and beat machines

Ho's facility for poignant melodies—easily conveyed through saxophone

bubbling bass

brash new form of pop music born out of ashes of late 1970s disco and funk and

while we climb further north into the middle of the Mediterranean Sea with "Medican Blues"

For fans of Haruomi Hosono / YMO

to celebrate the ground-breaking club’s first birthday

There are few artists capable of mixing balearic and deep-house universes

Something very basic—or Basic Channelesque

reflective EP of beautiful spiritual jazz influenced by the soulful sounds of Yusef Lateef