Gledd - Get Back EPREPRESS ALERT!: Edoardo Barbi is an alias of Gledd, the label head at Saint Wax, co owner of Radio Mundo Records and a prolific producer who hails from Italy but is based in Mexico City. For this new EP, he taps into his love of 70s church funk and classic gospel and serves up a quartet of emotionally intense cuts that each tell a unique story. They all have their own moods and subtly uplifting grooves and are defined by the famously meticulous

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the cornerstone of the band’s unique sound

with stress falling on my signature ‘journeying’ style

house legends Masters at Work and Brazilian artist Tim Maia

Xochimoki summon feathered gods and animal spirits

Davy The Fat Boy 2:48

mixing between two copies of this very record – the first time mixing had been demonstrated on British TV

Choosing Lyon as their starting point

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more southern Soul at other points – often with more of a 60s acoustic mode than the sorts of more-electric and groovy instrumentation others singers of the time were using

One thing that remains the same decades later is that encouraging deeper listening to the sounds of the mbira

one under his own name