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Review: Later this year, crate-digging specialists Cordial Recordings is set to release an album of previously unheard recordings by cult German jazz-fusion combo Afrodisia. To get us in the mood, the London-based label has decided to reissue the band;s sole previous album, 1980's Elephant Sunrise. While the album is best known for the impeccable jazz-funk sweetness of "Sugar Free" - recorded, like much of the rest of the album, by a mixture of locals and guest musicians from a nearby U.S army base - there's much to enjoy throughout, from the psychedelic heaviness of opener "TMFF" and elastic dancefloor workout "Psychic Summers", to the slap-bass-propelled funk-rock of "Wild Turkey" and intense, full-throttle closer "Zugabe (Encore)".

Review: Julian Nicholas is a well-respected saxophonist based in Brighton who has been working across all manner of music for more than three decades. Now Cordial Recordings are looking back through his 90s works and giving them a fresh airing, starting with this exceptional album originally released on tape in 1992 as Mountain People. There's energy and subtlety in equal measure across the expanse of Rising, with 'Mountain People' in particular calling to mind the iconic refrains from Burt Bacharach's 'The Look Of Love'. Delicate but also incredibly kinetic, this is smooth jazz to ensnare your attention, wrought from the mind of one of the UK's finest sax players.

Review: Ruby & the Mudflaps were a funk group active throughout the seventies. Many of their best tunes have never before been pressed to vinyl and that is what motivates this new collection. Breezy. It is a superb collection of the band's best studio cuts alongside a number of live recordings, all made back in the seventies. These tunes are exclusive to the Cordial Recordings label and are new to vinyl aside from 'Is That Enough?' which the label put out on a 7" in 2018. The glorious title tune is a great one to kick off with and the funk levels do not dip from there.