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MUSIQ 251LP
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Mule Musiq present a reissue of Skymark's Primeiras Impressões, originally released in 2013. It is really rare that Mule Musiq does not offer new music for fresh imaginations. In the label's 15-year history, there only been a few reissues in the widely ramified discography: Lydia Lynch in 2006, Hans-Joachim Roedelius in 2013, Fumio Itabashi in 2018, and now with Skymark with his jazz album Primeiras Impressões. The Italian producer, composer, record collector, and Modern Sun Records label co-runner, that lists to the name Marc Friedli when he hands his tax report to the government, is no stranger to fans of modern Brazil, disco, fusion, house, Latin, jazz, funk, soul, and all other organically swinging music that grooves deep. Since 2007, he has released a string of albums and EPs on his own label as well as on imprints like Neroli, Mukatsuku Records, or Rush Hour, showing his impressive electric piano keyboard skills and unique style with an array of vintage synthesizers like ARP, Prophet, Moog, Roland, or Korg. On his privately pressed and strictly limited album, Primeiras Impressões, he delivered nine, gently jazzy tunes that process his experiences in the heat of Rio De Janeiro. They are intensely spiritual, they avoid ornamentation, and they bow before jazz history with a gentle respect, while adding an elegantly explorative and thrillingly uplifting freshness to the genre with deep discreet minimal funk and light-as-a-feather piano-melodies, as if the keyboard were a saxophone.
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MS12 001EP
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New "early '80s" oriented, disco song produced and performed by the synth wizard Skymark on his own Modern Sun Records imprint. Colorful piano chords, pentatonic solos, Prophet synth bass, and soulful vocals. Edition of 500.
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RHM 028EP
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Ron Trent meets Skymark -- two masterminds at work. Ron Trent takes on the mighty Skymark original and elevates the listener to a whole other place like only he can. Trent treats you to one of his deepest, dubbiest jams in recent years -- embracing the strength of the song while interweaving his own rhythm throughout. The original track, here on the flip, featured on Skymark's 2015 Wave From The Nucleus LP, is a beautiful song from the sun-kissed Swiss musician and producer who resided in Rio de Janeiro for many years, and now in Barcelona.
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MSLP 007LP
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New release on Modern Sun Records, Skymark's Virtual Stars. Independently released, Virtual Stars is an album of '80s boogie, disco, and jazz fusion, performed and recorded by Skymark playing the ARP, Prophet, Moog, Roland and Korg synths. Great songwriting and drum programming skills are on display throughout while Skymark deftly works an array of synths.
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