Jack McDuff Jimmy Forrest
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Meanjin's own keyboard-king David Versace makes his dazzling debut on La Sape Records, a seven-tracker full of hustling percussion, Latin jazz, low-slung grooves and piano-led ambience. Versace has been self-releasing a heap of wicked jazzy, largely dance-friendly tracks since late 2019 as well as playing in Meanjin nu-jazz dance outfit First Beige - who just performed at the mega We Out Here festival in the UK! Get on board the Versace train before it departs and leaves us all in his cosmic dust... <3

Brazilian drumming legend Ivan ‘Mamão’ Conti has been experimenting and innovating for the last half a century. As one-third of cult Rio jazz-funk trio Azymuth, Mamão was at the root of the group’s ‘samba doido’ (crazy samba) philosophy, bringing jazz influences and spacey electronics to traditional samba. Poison Fruit is his first album in over twenty years and his first on vinyl since 1984, save for his dope collaborative piece with hip-hop royalty Madlib under the shared moniker ‘Jackson Conti’. Expect rootsy, electronic samba and tripped-out jazz, beats and dance music. Comes on RSD special splattered vinyl with 2 unreleased tracks on a bonus 7"!