Name: Melodies Record Club 003: Hunee Selects
Brand: Dorothy Ashby

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

MRC3

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Colour

Black

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Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

With Folded A2 Insert with Words from and about the Artists

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-12-16

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

5053760080114

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Total Cap

1 / 12" / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Dorothy Ashby

Genre GB

House / UK Garage

Label GB

Melodies International

Reissue label established in 2015 whose soul aim is to share very special and relatively undiscovered sounds - music that few ears have been lucky enough to hear before. 
Run by [a=Floating Points] and [a=Elliot Bernard]. Art direction by [a=Nevil Bernard].

Dorothy Ashby was an American jazz harpist who made significant contributions to the genre. Throughout her career, she collaborated with renowned musicians such as Stanley Turrentine, Wendell Marshall, Shirley Scott, Art Taylor, Stan Getz, and Jimmy Cobb. Born on August 06, 1932 in Detroit, Michigan, Ashby received her harp training from Velma Froude at Cass Technical High School. She also had a profound impact on [a42058], teaching them the intricacies of the instrument a few years later. Sadly, Dorothy Ashby passed away on April 13, 1986 in Santa Monica, California.

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The third instalment of our new series of DJ and Artist curated 12” mini compilations: Melodies Record Club. 

Following Ben UFO and Four Tet’s selections last year, Hunee helms volume three which includes three tracks this time including music from Digital Justice, Dorothy Ashby and Frantz Tuernal. 

In his own words : "These three distinct pieces of music tap into different layers of my memory. One being part of the imagination, the other two rooted in the memories of a special morning in the woods of Houghton (and other times and places). On one side we have a beatless ecstatic piece of electronic music by Digital Justice called Theme From ‘It’s All Gone Pearshaped’. Originally released in 1994 on Rob Gretton’s (ex-manager of Joy Division and New Order) label Robs Records, Pearshaped is a 13 minute live jam from two friends messing around in a loft studio full of synths, inadvertently creating magic that can “take many shapes and forms in the hands of a DJ and the movement of a dance floor, whilst its harmonic counterpoint shines through the wildest mixes and combinations” On the flip, we have Dorothy Ashby’s spiritual piece featuring Koto and spoken word “For Some We Loved” from her classic album The Rubáiyát Of Dorothy Ashby originally released in 1970 on Cadet and Frantz Tuernal’s “Koultans” originally released in 1986 by l’AMEP (Association Martiniquaise d’Enseignement Populaire) which was also a school in Martinique.“

After dancing to a set from Cedric Woo at an intimate, after-closing dance party at Brilliant Corners called “Freedom Suite” which completely re-calibrated my sense of experiencing and dancing to music, I went home and immediately searched through my collection for music to listen to and potentially play with these new found sensitivities - the very physical experience of music, the pulling force pushing one into the transcendence of time and space. Dorothy Ashby’s "For Some We Loved“ immediately took me back to that feeling and opened up in front of me an otherworldly-world through it’s free flowing polyrhythms and sparkling Koto playing. I have yet to play my own "Freedom Suite“ night, but I hope when that moment comes, I can give back what I have received back then, and "For Some We Loved“ is a first step in trying just that.”“I have been shown Frantz Tuernal’s privately pressed 12“ containing "Koultans“ by my trusted music friend Nicolas Skliris from Paris a few years ago. An unlikely piece of music (a Zouk song with flamenco-inspired guitar playing) from Martinique that was both a highlight back at Giant Steps when I played the song 3 times in a row in the early morning, and a few weeks later in the woods of Houghton where a few thousand dancers were deeply moved to its melody, when the sun came up in the morning and started descending upon the lake behind the DJ booth, bathing the smiles upon the dancers faces with its reflection.”

Melodies Record Club 003: Hunee Selects

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Discover Melodies Record Club 003: Hunee Selects by Dorothy Ashby. This exclusive vinyl features three tracks from Digital Justice, Dorothy Ashby, and Frantz Tuernal. Available in 12" format from Melodies International.